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My mate Marty is mithering about acrostic rhymes
And yet I see he dove right in and wrote one in quick time.
Rhythm and rhyme it surely has – he’s such a clever chook
Though in it a small dummy spit. Is our Marty a sook?
You’d think he was if you believed the random choice he took.

Google. You’ll find acrostic poems date back a long time
Even in the bible they’re written – prayers to saints, in rhyme
To recall all the heavens planets there’s a little chime.**

Oh yes this form is nothing new so please don’t dummy spit
Very likely I would think that you might live to rue it.
Egads methinks one does protest too much I have to say
Round medieval courts acrostics were a way to play.

In ‘ Alice through the Looking Glass’
The name revealed in full at last.

Maureen Clifford ©



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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the final chapter "A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky is an acrostic of the real Alice's name: Alice Pleasance Liddell.

Acrostics occur in the first four of the five songs that make up the Book of Lamentations,

Well I'm a well rounded type of girl Marty - like to cover as many bases as I can

Good on you Maureen.

Just to help Marty along, the acrostic in the so-called Book of Lamentations is successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which unfortunately is not recognisable in English translation.

Everyone who has tried to learn music would know Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit( letters of the music stave) or Go Down And Enter By Force ( the major sharp keys in music )

Two of them! Your a glutten for punishment Maureen.

Terry

Oh I am right up on Hebrew Neville hence the Lamentations.

Just setting a good example Terry - never ask the troops to do something you won't do yourself