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4 Ιαν 2022 · An acrostic poem is a poem in which the first letter (or sometimes the first syllable) of each line spells out a word, name, or sentence. A good example is Lewis Carroll’s untitled poem, usually called “Life Is but a Dream,” at the end of Through the Looking-Glass.
9 Νοε 2023 · These fourteen acrostic poems feature many creative wordplays, sometimes even breaking the form’s ‘rules’ in meaningful ways to mirror a poem’s particular message. Psalm 37, for example, showcases at least three distinct kinds of alliterative wordplay.
ACROSTIC. a-kros'-tik: The acrostic, understood as a short poem in which the first letters of the lines form a word, or name, or sentence, has not yet been proved to occur in ancient Hebrew literature. The supposed examples found by some scholars in Psalm 2:1-4 and Psalm 110:1-4 are not generally recognized.
One of the many interesting rhetorical features of the Hebrew Bible is its use of alphabetical acrostics. These acrostics are not "hidden codes" -- they are literary compositions in which the writer has used the letters of the Hebrew alphabet as the initial letters for a sequence of verses.
The acrostic, understood as a short poem in which the first letters of the lines form a word, or name, or sentence, has not yet been proved to occur in ancient Hebrew literature. The supposed examples found by some scholars in Psalms 2:1-4 and Psalms 110:1-4 are not generally recognized.
26 Δεκ 2023 · An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. This poetic form is found throughout the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms. Acrostic poems in Scripture not only beautifully express worship and truths about God, but also aid in memorization.
According to the Oxford Companion to the Bible, ‘an acrostic poem is a poem in which the initial letters of each successive line form a word, phrase or pat-tern’ (Oxford Companion to the Bible 1999:6). This definition of an acrostic poem seems to be broader than what is normally considered to be acrostic psalms or poems in Biblical Hebrew.
