Directory of Acrostics Resources

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Acrostic Verse is an ancient Greek poetic form in which the initial letters of each word when read downwards form a word.Double and Triple Acrostic Verse can have the middle and/or last letter of a line also spell a word.

Resources in This Category

• Acrostics by Seminar Members

  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~curran/250-96/Acrostics/seminar.html
  Collection of verse from The University Of Pennsylvania.

• Acrostics of Self-Inscription

  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~curran/250-96/Acrostics/romantic.html
  Verse by Women Poets of the Romantic Age

• Baseball Acrostics

  http://www.mikki.net/baseball_acrostics.htm
  Collection of baseball acrostics from Writer's Corner

• Food, Drink and Romance

  http://locus1.com/fdr/words/acrostics.htm
  Selection of verse based on names.

• Name Poems for Free

  https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html
  A collection of acrostic name poems by Nicholas Gordon; works are free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.

 

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