ACROSTIC - DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE

• A series of lines in which certain letters - usually the first in each line - form a name or message when read in sequence. (http://grammar.about.com/)

• Acrostics
  Are playful
  Contrivances of prose or verse
  Rendered so that each line
  Opens or closes with words in
  Sequence to read from
  Top to bottom, their
  Initial or final letters
  Constituting a word or phrase.
  (Ned Halley, Dictionary of Modern English Grammar. Wordsworth, 2005)