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An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, "top", and stíchos, "verse") is a poem or other writing in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. A form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. A famous acrostic was... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Jewish music Most piyyutim are in Hebrew or Aramaic, and most follow some poetic scheme, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author.

Piyyut Most piyyutim are in Hebrew or Aramaic, and most follow some poetic scheme, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author.

Religious Jewish music Most piyyutim are in Hebrew or Aramaic, and most follow some poetic scheme, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author.

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Akdamut The 45 two-line verses of Akdamut are arranged as a double alphabetic acrostic followed by the initial letters spelling out the words, "Meir, son of Rabbi Isaac, may he grow in Torah and in good deeds.

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Acrostic Acrostics may simply spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; these acrostics occur in the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and in Psalms 9,10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145 of the Hebrew Bible.

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The Greek Coffin Mystery The names of the chapters, each a single word, contain an acrostic which spells out "The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen".

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A. N. Wilson It was then discovered that he had been the victim of a hoax and had included a letter (to Anglo-Irish writer, Honor Tracy) which purported to be by Betjeman detailing a previously unknown love affair, but which he acknowledged to be a fiction, when it was pointed out that it contained an acrostic spelling out an insulting message to him.

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Acrostic Acrostics may simply spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; these acrostics occur in the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and in Psalms 9,10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145 of the Hebrew Bible.

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Word square This square, like any word square, is not only acrostic in its initial letters, duplicating numerous found and constructed acrostic phrases of the day; it can be considered a special case of acrostic in which the acrostic occurs in every column of letters.

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Word square This square, like any word square, is not only acrostic in its initial letters, duplicating numerous found and constructed acrostic phrases of the day; it can be considered a special case of acrostic in which the acrostic occurs in every column of letters.

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Jewish music Most piyyutim are in Hebrew or Aramaic, and most follow some poetic scheme, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author.

Piyyut Most piyyutim are in Hebrew or Aramaic, and most follow some poetic scheme, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author.

Religious Jewish music Most piyyutim are in Hebrew or Aramaic, and most follow some poetic scheme, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author.

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    Acrostic

    A form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. A famous acrostic was made on the Greek for the acclamation JESUS CHRIST, GOD'S SON, SAVIOUR which in Greek is: Iesous CHristos, THeou Uios, Soter (ch and th being each one letter in Greek and u is also y).
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    Acrostic (puzzle)

    An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts.
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    Piyyut

    Most piyyutim are in Hebrew or Aramaic, and most follow some poetic scheme, such as an acrostic following the order of the Hebrew alphabet or spelling out the name of the author.
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    Serana

    Poet has found some acrostics in the Hebrew Bible. ... The serana finds spiritual inspiration from the dream of the poet an angel showing him the concept of acrostic.
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    Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

    Poe also wrote "An Acrostic" to her as well as the poem that would become "To F——s S. O——d."
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    Syriac music

    Besides variety of metre and division into strophes, the Syrians prior to the ninth century knew no other artifice than the arrangement of acrostic poems.
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    Word square

    This square, like any word square, is not only acrostic in its initial letters, duplicating numerous found and constructed acrostic phrases of the day; it can be considered a special case of acrostic in which the acrostic occurs in every column of letters.
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    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    An example of this is the chapter entitled Contracrostipunctus, which combines the words acrostic and contrapunctus (counterpoint).
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    Het Wilhelmus

    The anthem is an acrostic: the first letters of the fifteen stanzas formed the name 'Willem van Nassov' (Nassov was a contemporary orthographic variant of Nassau).
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    Cynewulf

    Also deserving consideration is the argument that the acrostic was most fashionable in ninth century poetry and Cynewulf’s own acrostic signature would have followed the trend during this time.

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