Acrostic: A poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence.
From: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
특별한 방법으로, 특히 행의 첫글자만 읽었을 때 의미있는 말이 나오는 시나 문장. 삼행시와 WordSquare는 이것의 일종이다.영어 (ABC순) ¶
ELIZBETH -- it surely is most fit [Logic and common usage so commanding] In thy own book that first thy name be writ, Zeno 1 and other sages notwithstanding; And I have other reasons for so doing Besides my innate love of contradiction; Each poet -- if a poet -- in persuing The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction, Has studied very little of his part, Read nothing, written less -- in short 's a fool Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art, Being ignorant of one important rule, Employed in even the theses of the school -- Called -- I forget the heathenish Greek name -- [Called anything, its meaning is the same] "Always write first things uppermost in the heart." (첫글자만 읽었을 때 "ELIZABETH REBECCA"가 된다.)