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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.
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.
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.
These Hebrew poems use the letters of the Hebrew alphabet to begin a new line, strophe, unit or paragraph. Here is an example of a non-alphabetic acrostic that forms a phrase with the beginning letters of each line. The heading of the poem is also the acrostic phrase that is constructed in the poem:
6 Μαρ 2022 · One of the most formally fixed types among biblical poems is the acrostic. Among the acrostics of the Hebrew Bible, the predominant form has the headword of each line or couplet follow sequentially in alphabetical order. However, there are a couple of striking examples in which the acrostic form is expanded, namely Lamentations 3 and Psalm 119.
30 Ιουλ 2013 · Nine of the biblical Psalms are acrostic poems. The general idea is a simple one: they comprise a sequence of uses of the Hebrew alphabet in alphabetical order. So, for example, in the two shortest complete acrostics, psalms 111 and 112, half a verse or less of material starts with successive letters of the Hebrew….
Acrostic poems draw attention to the first letter of each line, and in Prov 31:10-31, the first letter of each verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet—v. 10 begins with aleph, v. 11 with bet, and so on through the 22 letters to v. 31, which begins with the final letter, tav.
