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Acrostics

Scope note

Short poems or prose compositions in which text is arranged so that the first letters of each line form a word, phrase, or motto.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000256198

Broader Terms used

<document genres by form>

Equivalent Terms used

acrostic

Created

12yrs ago

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