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Isn't there a special name for such a thing? An abcderium? Hell, in one of the poems in my first book all the lines end with the letter s -- is that a tour de force? [log in to unmask] wrote: > Rita Dove > << had read this poem several times before noticing its technical > tour-de-force--that each line begins with a sequential letter of the > alphabet! >> > Holy hyperbole! The Hamby poem is okay...but since when > is a poem that is essentially an acrostic (using the alphabet > instead of a word/name) a "technical tour-de-force." > I guess when you're a famous poet all that blurb writing > become infectious. > Finnegan -- ________________________ Joseph Duemer School of Liberal Arts-5750 Clarkson University Potsdam NY 13699 [log in to unmask] ________________________ "Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly." ::Wittgenstein %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%