An acrostic is a form of poetic arrangement of lines where the first letters in each line have meaning when read vertically. In this case, the text of the acrostic offers a riddle that matches the vertical meaning.
Albums at the beginning of the nineteenth century were popular. They contained cut-up magazine clippings, poetry, pictures, etc.
Acrostic
by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
A thing of glitter, gleam, and gold,
Loose thoughts, loose verse, unmeaning, old,
Big words that sound a thousand fold;
Unfinished scraps, conceit and can't,
Mad stanzas, and a world of rant.
Albums at the beginning of the nineteenth century were popular. They contained cut-up magazine clippings, poetry, pictures, etc.
Acrostic
by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
A thing of glitter, gleam, and gold,
Loose thoughts, loose verse, unmeaning, old,
Big words that sound a thousand fold;
Unfinished scraps, conceit and can't,
Mad stanzas, and a world of rant.
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