A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. See Lewis Carroll’s “A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky.”

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&quo [..]

A poem in which the first or last letters of each line vertically form a word, phrase, or sentence. Apart from puzzles in newspapers and magazines, the most common modern versions involve the first le [..]

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A verse or list of words composed in such a way that certain letters of each line (usually the first and/or last), when read in order of appearance, spell a word, phrase, or sentence. An abecedarius i [..]

An acrostic is when the first letters of a series of words or phrases are used to make a word. An example is: * Fun * Road Trips * Ice cream * Extrafun * New adventures * Dancing * Summertime

Poem where the first letter of each line spells out a significant word e.g. Flat land stretching Endlessly be- Neath a huge Sky. The term acrostic derives from the Greek for 'at the tip of [..]

(n) a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across(n) verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their [..]

An acrostic is a spiffy kind of poem that uses all of the letters from a single word to make a whole new set of words, phrases, or lines. Think of it as vertical poetry.What's that? You want an e [..]