Acrostic
a poetical composition, disposed in such a manner that the initial letters of each linc, taken in order, form a person's name or other complete word or words. This kind of poetical triflings was very popular with the French poets from the time of Francis I. until Louis XIV. 7- THE ACROPOLIS AT ATHENS, AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES nently the Acropolis of Athens, to which the name is now chiefly applied. The Acropolis of Athens was the original city of Athens, later the upper city, as distinguished from the lower, and was built In the Old Testament there are 12 psalms written according to this principle.
Of these, the 119th Psalm is the most remarkable; it consists of 22 stanzas, each of which commences with a Hebrew letter, ACT ACTION and is called by its name. Acrostic animals, they are called also animal verse is no longer cultivated by the poets.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote some striking acrostics, varying the form with great ingenuity,