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The Poetry Project

Acrostic

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic), 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. The term comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος "highest, topmost" and στίχος "verse". As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval.

Fox

Frightful storms invade.
Onshore gales flail.
Xerothermic deluges fuddle.