Acrostic

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An acrostic is a poem (or another form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other repetitive feature in the text) specifies a word, message or alphabet. This word comes from the French acrostiche of the post-classical Latin acrostichis , from the Koine Greek ?????????, from the Ancient Greek ???? ? "highest, topmost" and ?????? "paragraph"). As a restricted form of writing, acrostics can be used as a mnemonic tool to aid memory retrieval.

A relatively simple acrostic may simply spell the letters in alphabetical order; such an acrostic can be referred to as the 'acrostic alphabet' or Abecedarius. This acrostic occurs in the first four of the five chapters composing the Book of Lament, in praise of good wives in Proverbs 31, 10-31, and in Psalms 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145 of the Hebrew Bible. Important among the acrostic Psalms is the long 119 Psalm, usually printed in a subdivision named after 22 Hebrew alphabets, each part consisting of 8 verses, each beginning with the same alphabet and the entire psalm consisting of 22 x 8 = 176 verses; and Psalm 145, read three times a day in the Jewish service. Some of the akrostics are technically incomplete. For example. Psalm 9 and Psalm 10 seem to be a single acrostic pianist, but the lengths set for each letter are not the same and five of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet are not represented and the order of two letters is reversed. In Psalm 25 a Hebrew letter is not represented, the following letter (Resh) is repeated. In Psalm 34, the last verse of the current, 23, matches verse 22 in the content, but is too long. In Psalms 37 and 111 the numbering of verses and the division into interlocking lines; as a result in Psalm 37, because Daleth and Kaph letters have only one verse, and the Ayin letter is not represented. Psalms 111 and 112 have 22 lines, but 10 sentences. Psalm 145 does not represent the letter Nun, has 21 one verse, but a Qumran manuscript of this Psalm has a missing line, which corresponds to the Septuagint. Acrostics prove that the texts originally written in writing, rather than already in the oral tradition before being incorporated into writing.

The general acrostics in medieval literature, where they usually serve to highlight the name of the poet or his patron, or to make a prayer to the saint. They are most often in verses but may also appear in prose. The High German Medieval Poet, Rudolf von Ems, for example, opens all his great works with the acrostics of his name, and his historical record marks the beginning of every age with the acrostics of key figures (Moses, David, etc.). In chronicles, acrostics are common in German and English but rarely in other languages.

Often the ease of detecting acrostics can depend on the intention of the creator. In some cases, a writer may want an acrostic to have a better chance of being understood by an obedient reader, such as the acrostic contained in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (where the major capital letters are decorated with ornate decoration). However, acrostics can also be used as a form of steganography, in which the author tries to hide the message rather than proclaim it. This can be achieved by making uniform letters in appearance with surrounding text, or by aligning the words in such a way that the relationship between the key letters is less clear. This is referred to as null cipher in steganography, using the first letter of each word to form a hidden message in harmless text. Using letters to hide messages, as in acrostic ciphers, is popular during the Renaissance, and can use various coding methods, such as selecting letters other than initials based on repetitive patterns (same-letter sequences), or even hiding messages by starting at the end of the text and working backwards.

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Example

The famous acrostic was made in Greek for the acclamation of JESUS ​​CHRIST, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, THE SAVIOR. Initial spell ????? (ICHTHYS), which means fish :

 ?  ????? I   Jesus  ?  ?????? CH  ristos  Christ  ?  ??? TH  eou  from God  ?  ??? Son Y  ios   ?  ???? S  oter  savior  

There is acrostic secreted in the Dutch national anthem Het Wilhelmus ( The William ): the first letters of the fifteen stanzas spell WILLEM VAN NASSOV. It is one of the William of Silent descendants, who introduced himself in poetry to the Dutch people. This title was also returned in the 2010 speech of the throne, during the Opening of the Dutch State Parliament, the first of 15 lines also forming the VAN NASSOV WILLEM.

The short story of Vladimir Nabokov "The Vane Sisters" is famous for its final acrostic paragraph, containing messages from outside the grave.

An acrostic poem written in English by Edgar Allan Poe is titled "An Acrostic":

In Lewis Carroll Through Looking-Glass, the last chapter "A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky" is an acrostic from the original Alice name: Alice Pleasance Liddell.

In January 2010, Jonathan I. Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, emailed Sun's employees about the completion of Sun's acquisition by Oracle Corporation. The first letter of the first seven paragraphs is spelled "IBM Beat".

James May, presenter on the Top Gear BBC program, was fired from the Autocar publication for spelling messages using a large red initial at the beginning of each review in the publication of Road Test Yearbook Issue i> for 1992. Correctly, the message reads: "So you think it's very good? Yes, you should try to make that bloody thing.

In the third novel 2012 of the Caged Flower series, author Cullman Wallace uses acrostics as a plot device. Parents of the protagonist send e-mails where the first letters of the line reveal their situation in a hidden message.

In 2013 a principal resigned after announcing the resignation of a teacher in a statement that began " W e a ll n ow k now e very r extraordinary great teacher needs to complete one day... "The first letter of the first six words causes a violation.

On August 19, 2017, Donald Trump Committee members for Arts and Humanity resigned in protest at the President's response to the unite the Right rally incident in Charlottesville, Virginia. A member's resignation letter contains an acrylic "RESIST" formed from the first letter of each paragraph.

On August 23, 2017, the University of California-Berkeley University's energy professor Daniel Kammen resigned from his position as a Department of Foreign Affairs science delegate with a letter of resignation in which the word "IMPEACH" was written with the first letter of each paragraph.

Example 2017 of full word acrostic poem uses the first word of each line, entitled "For 2/14":

In the Zork video game, the first letters of the sentences in the prayer spell "Odysseus" which is a possible solution for meeting cyclops in another room.

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Many acrostics

Acrostics can be more complex than just making the words of the initials. A double acrostic, for example, may have words at the beginning and end of the line, like this example, in the name of Stroud, by Paul Hansford -

  S  et among the hills in the middle of five valleys  S ,  Â  T  our peaceful little market town inhabi  T   Â  R  efuses (hard!) To be a conforme  R .  Â  O  where the cloth originally named t  O ,  Â  U  phill and down again the streets pointing to yo  U .  Â  D  especially the error makes us all charme  D .  

The first letters form acrostich and the last letter telestich ; in this case they are identical.

The poem Look, my God! , by William Browne, can be considered a complex acrostic type. In the manuscript, some letters are capitalized and written extra-large, non-italic, and red, and the lines are shifted left or right and internally placed as necessary to position the red letters in three crosses that extend through all the lines of the poem. The letters within each cross spell a verse from the New Testament:

• left: Luke 23:42: "Lord, remember me when you came to your kingdom. "
• middle: Matthew 27:46: "O Allah, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
• true: Luke 23:39: " If you are Christ, save yourself and us. "

The "INRI" at the top of the middle cross stands for me? Sus Nazar? Nus, R? X me? Dae? Rum , Latin for "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" (John 19: 3). The three quotes represent three figures crucified on Golgotha, as recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

(The texts of the manuscripts are significantly different from commonly published texts, including in reference Many lines have slightly different words, and while their acrostics are as far as they go, the published texts disappear in four lines, cutting the acrostic to "God, Remember me when you come to your relatives "," O Allah, my God, why do you ignore it, "and" If you are the Christ, save yourself. "The script manuscripts are printed below, first as ordinary poems, then given space and bold to remove the acrostic The word "You" in line 8 is not visible in this photo but in the published version and included in the cross-sampler of the poem from 1793.)

 Look, God!  IN RI  verses my tears  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I came to you! prostrate to the blessed ear  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â To hear my Plaint; and keep your eyes fixed  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Continuous watch, see Sinner's lament:  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Let not,  O GOD GOD I  my Sins, tho 'great,  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And countless, bet  W  een Your Mercy-Seat  Â Â Â Â Â Â And my poor Soul  H  place ave; since we were taught,   [You]   God, remember  st th  Y  ne,  If You  are looking for.  I followed  ME  no, Lord, with  H  every o  THE  r reward  From  WH  in I by my legacy S  A  viour  CH :  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Be th  EN  Blank  S  My Balm - St is  RI  my Bliss paste;  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â His  TH  gave my crown a name; my dea  T  h cancel  ST  in his book.  And  OU , bles me  T  Redeemer,  SA   Leave out your ac  CO  unts, with  H  old thy  VE  ngeful rod!  Â Â Â O request for  ME ,  O  my paste at  T  hee set;  Â Â Â Â And Chri  ST  forgi  V  e me, because t  H  ou pay my debt   F  e, Wa  Y , I know,  And yet  KE  you,  O  where the hall  S  I go?  All  TH  er helps  R  e in vain: give me  E   For the  Y  cross  S  aving hea I  L  I see.  O hear  K  id then, th  A  t I with  F   Â Â Â Â Â Â Never mind S  IN  and Pass away my  K  to rise   no more.  O  G  od, my guide  E  directs the  A  guide,  In  D  my eath  N  d defeats, ever  N  glide;  And on Do  OM  day let  M  e be rais'  D  again,  To live   with  E  sweet Jes  AS  say, Amin.  

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Also see

• Acronym and initialism
• Backronym
• Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (refer other examples of acrostics)
• Mesostics
• Mnemonic
• O Antiphon
• Steganography
• Square words
• Rikei

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Reference

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External links

• An insane gravitational aquatic poem in Montreal
• Acrostic script Gustavus Conyngham

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