It's an acrostic.
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Acrostic
//əˈkɹɒstɪk//
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29 translations across 25 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- acròstic noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 藏頭詩 /藏头诗 noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Czech
1 entries- akrostich noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Dutch
1 entries- acrostichon noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Esperanto
2 entries- akrostiko noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
- akrostiĥo noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Finnish
1 entries- akrostikon noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
French
1 entries- acrostiche noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
German
1 entries- Akrostichon noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Greek
1 entries- ακροστιχίδα noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Hebrew
2 entries- אקרוסטיכון noun (poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet)
- חתימה noun (poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet)
Hungarian
1 entries- akrosztichon noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Icelandic
1 entries- gripla noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Interlingua
1 entries- acrosticon noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Irish
2 entries- acrastach noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
- acrastaic noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Italian
1 entries- acrostico noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Korean
1 entries- 아크로스틱 noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Polish
1 entries- akrostych noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Portuguese
1 entries- acróstico noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Romanian
1 entries- acrostih noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Russian
1 entries- акрости́х noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ȁkrostih noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
- а̏кростих noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Spanish
1 entries- acróstico noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Swedish
1 entries- akrostikon noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Tagalog
1 entries- akrostik noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
Ukrainian
1 entries- акрові́рш noun (poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message)
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Tom composed an acrostic spelling out THOMAS.
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He [Judas Maccabeus] was termed Mackabæus, becauſe he carried in his ſtandard, or vexillum militare, theſe four Hebrew letters, Mem, Chaph, Beth, and Jod, or M. C. B. and J. whereunto their points being added, which are their vowells, (for others they have none) his mott was Mackabai, whereof he took his name. Theſe four letters are the acroſtickes or initiall letters of theſe four wordes in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Exodus, Mi Chamocha Baalim Jehovah, which is in Latin Quis ſicut tu Deorum Jehova? ["Who among the gods is like you, O Adonai?", Exodus 15:11.]
Source: wiktionary
I have written an acroſticke ſonet to his Maieſtie, a canzonet to the Queene, and another acroſticke unto the Prince; whoſe ſervant I am by vow, and ſubordinate ſubject by birth.
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