Upon the suggestion of Boris Slutsky, the poet adopted the penname David Petrov.

Early Christian poets such as Paulinus of Nola adopted the natalicium poem for commemorating saints.

The unknown poet, "a remarkable reactionary," rejects the Hellenizing trend in Latin poetry led by Ennius (ca. 239-169 BC) and adopts a deliberately archaic style, invoking the Camenae:

Roman poets, particularly Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later.

Conceivably, other poets could adopt the form, and repeated examples would give literary analysts the material they would need to specify its defining characteristics and give it a name.

Elements of the Zohar crept into the liturgy of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the religious poets not only used the allegorism and symbolism of the Zohar in their compositions, but even adopted its style, e.g. the use of erotic terminology to illustrate the relations between man and God.

In the 1970s, some feminist poets adopted the concept to discover their "collective feminine voice".

First was the persona , or mask-voice, that a poet adopts for a particular poem, as Robert Browning did hiding behind the Duke in "My Last Duchess."

If Freemantle portrayed Leapor as relatively docile, it must be said that the poet occasionally adopted obsequious postures herself.