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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]
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.
Another example is the Old Polish poem Skarga umierajÄ…cego ("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. [citation needed]
An unpublished 9-line poem written circa 1829 for Poe's cousin Elizabeth Rebecca Herring (the acrostic is her first name, spelled out by the first letter of each line). It was never published in Poe's lifetime.
The entire poem is 90 verses long. The first 44 verses of Akdamut are arranged as a double alphabetic acrostic, two lines for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, followed by 46 verses with the initial letters spelling out the words, "Meir, son of Rabbi Isaac, may he grow in Torah and in good deeds.
For example, Blake’s mention of the 'mind-forg’d manacles' suggests the psychological impact of societal restrictions on individuals (Zhan, 2013). [2] [5] Additionally, an acrostic poem titled Shouting at the Past by Benbo Smith, explores themes of silence and the loss of hearing.
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Vers 12-22: didactic poem 1; Vers 13-15: Question - answer: Vers 16-22: Collection of wise sayings. It is an acrostic poem in the Hebrew alphabet, with each letter beginning a verse in sequential order; the lone exception is waw (ו ), which begins the second clause of verse six. The first and last verses are outside the acrostic scheme.