Antati (Tamil: அந்தாதி, romanized: Antāti) is a unique kind of Tamil poetry, constructed such that the last or ending word of each verse becomes the first word of the next verse.
[1] In some instances, the last word of the series of verses becomes the beginning of the very first verse, thus making the poem "a true garland of verses".
The term is a portmanteau, since in Tamil, anta(m) means "end", and ati means "beginning".
[2] The Shaiva saint Karaikal Ammaiyar was the first poet to compose an antati.
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