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Poem with a word reading vertically
Answer for the clue "Poem with a word reading vertically ", 8 letters:
acrostic
Alternative clues for the word acrostic
- Puzzle involving a quote
- Clever verse
- Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
- Puzzle that involves a quote
- Verse that spells words vertically
- A sign of wrong and right, we hear, in a puzzle
- A largely aggravated mannerism provides a puzzle
- Word puzzle that involves a quotation
Word definitions for acrostic in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph , or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French acrostiche ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
short poem in which the initial letters of the lines, taken in order, spell a word or phrase, 1580s, from Medieval Latin acrostichis , from Greek akrostikhis , from akros "at the end, outermost" (see acrid ) + stikhos "line of verse," literally "row" (see ...
Usage examples of acrostic.
Togarmi, Abulafia freely sprinkled his texts with codes, acrostics, and number-letter puns to simultaneously befuddle his persecutors and communicate freely with knowledgeable Spanish mystics like Joseph Gikatilia, a respected member of his circle.
Kangaroo Island, and she asked me to write some double acrostics for the poor incurables.
In the end I prepared a book of charades and double acrostics, for the printing and binding of which Mrs.
You are right about the undead predilection for noms de plume, alter egos, secret identities, anagrams, and palindromes and acrostics.
In fact, the Prosthetic I have in mind is a rather old model, which is only good for Post-Modern Acrostic Haiku.
Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning.
Writing questions and answers and acrostics to himself on the computer?
No wonder everyone in this place spoke in acrostics, never knowing when they might be overheard.
In that case he would have had to apply the notarikon to the temurah, to invent an acrostic to remember the word.