Acrostic
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Acrostic
Acrostic: Any poem whose lines' first letters vertically form either the alphabet, the poet's or dedicatee's name, a concept word (which can look hokey, but not always), or even entire sentences, if the poem has length. These go back to the Babylonians, but many poets, even modern ones, have fooled around with them. (Anne Sexton did, for instance.)
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
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