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An 1850 acrostic by Nathaniel Dearborn, the first letter of each line spelling the name "JENNY LIND". An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. [1]
James H. Whitty discovered the poem and included it in his 1911 anthology of Poe's works under the title "From an Album". It was also published in Thomas Ollive Mabbott's definitive Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe in 1969 as "An Acrostic". The poem mentions "Endymion", possibly referring to an 1818 poem by John Keats with that name.
Charity Bryant (May 22, 1777 [1] – October 6, 1851 [2]) was an American business owner and writer.She was a diarist and wrote acrostic poetry. [3] Because there is extensive documentation for the shared lives of Bryant and her partner Sylvia Drake, their diaries, letters and business papers have become an important part of the archive in documenting the history of same-sex couples.
Psalm 119 is one of about a dozen alphabetic acrostic poems in the Bible. Its 176 verses are divided into twenty-two stanzas, one stanza for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet; within each stanza, each of the eight verses begins (in Hebrew) with that letter. [18] The name of God (Yahweh/Jehovah) appears twenty-four times.
The acrostic was a lighter form of wordplay that had been adopted by contemporary poets as a form of patterned poetry. In 1637, when Fames Roule was published, the acrostic was a major feature of the literary culture. [4] The title Fames Roule is itself a play on words – it can be read as either "Fame’s Rule" or "Fame’s Roll."
Another example is the Old Polish poem Skarga umierającego ("Lament of Dying Man"). [10] Such poems are important historical sources on the development of a language's orthography ; Constantine of Preslav 's abecedarius from the 9th century, for example, documents the early Slavic alphabet.
Poet and musician Ken Waldman with his fiddle. Ken Waldman is an American writer and musician in Anchorage, Alaska who has published twenty books including 16 volumes of poetry, a book of acrostic poems for kids, a memoir, a creative writing handbook, and a novel.
The fifth poem, corresponding to the fifth chapter, is not acrostic but still has 22 lines. [ 3 ] Although some claim that purpose or function of the acrostic form is unknown, [ 7 ] it is frequently thought that a complete alphabetical order expresses a principle of completeness, from alef (first letter) to tav (22nd letter); the English ...