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verses seems to be constructed in an acrostic style, a poetic device that ... * de Vries, S. J. "The Acrostic of Nahum in the Jerusalem Liturgy ...

This is not to mention the acrostic style adopted by the poetic author ... imply that it could have been an unfinished acrostic. Meek, 4; Houk ...

mastery of a wide range of poetic forms, from the acrostic to the carmina figurata. By the 1910s, Bryusov's poetry had begun to seem cold ...

#039;s personal enemies, messianic prophecies, acrostic literary exercises, and even a marriage song. The Psalms play a major role in the worship ...

quot; from Alice Liddell. There is an acrostic poem at the end of Through the Looking Glass which supports this view. Reading downward, taking ...

the latter apparently a sort of alphabetical acrostic. == Influence == === In the Jewish liturgy === Although excluded from the Jewish canon ...

Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma) is taken as an acrostic, spelling out Jesus and his titles: "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior" (Iesous CHristos ...

Theodore the Studite, also called St Theodore of Stoudios or St Theodore of Studium (759-826 C.E.), was a Byzantine monk and abbot of the Stoudios ...

Arabic name, "Sa'id." In an acrostic of the Hebrew introduction to his first work, the Agron, he calls himself Said ben Yosef,, but he ...

letter also has a numeric value, embedding an acrostic may give an additional layer of meaning to these works. One purpose of acrostics was as ...

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков (April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977) was a Russian ...

Hebrew grammar, alphabetical and acrostic, consisting of 400 verses divided into ten parts. Ninety-five lines of this grammar have been preserved ...

of poetry often added meaning or depth. Acrostic poems conveyed meanings ... ;Acrostic Acrostic A poem in which the first letters of the lines, ...