He wrote the words for almost all his funerary songs, often incorporating the name of the deceased as anacrostic.
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If a song text alluded to the name of the recipient, it often did so via anacrosticthat was independent of the surface meaning of the words.
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We should think about the difficulties we create by such anacrosticmethod of legislation.
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And so, since each chapter, without exception, contained twenty-five paragraphs, the censors and the general public soon discovered twenty-five acrostics.
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It was intended to be used in versification, in which acrostics and rime were the chief requisites.
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These chapters are completed by the author's signature, and are followed by two hymns, the latter apparently a sort of alphabeticalacrostic.
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Acrosticpoems conveyed meanings in the initial letters of lines or in letters at other specific places in a poem.
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He took up poetry at a very young age and had written many poems and acrostics before he reached his twenties.
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She composed twoacrosticpoems of advice for her young children.
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The first letters of each of the stanzas form anacrostic, which frequently includes the name of the poet.
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Often the ease of detectability of anacrosticcan depend on the intention of its creator.
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However, acrostics may also be used as a form of steganography, where the author seeks to conceal the message rather than proclaim it.
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It consists of 15 sonnets and is enriched withacrosticin the concluding sonnet.
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As was common at the time, the song is also anacrostic, with the first letter of the first eight stanzas spelling the author's name.
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Many of his poems are sonnets, albeit often with a modern twist, and he occasionally made use of the blues form and acrostics.
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