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What are a few examples of acrostic poems?

Here are some famous examples of acrostic poems:

1. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe:

Rain.

Everything

Vanishes

Everything

Night

Pace

2. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

Half a league, half a league,

All in the valley of Death,

Left his six hundred.

3. "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth:

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high oer vales and hill

Spring's first, though yellow, harflinger

4. "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell:

Had we but world enough, and time,

And things spent, and youth at prime

Death would tyrranize over your youth,

5. "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe:

It was many and many a year ago,

NIn a kingdom by the sea,

NThat a maiden there lived whom you may know

As aNNAbel Lee;

6. "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll:

`T`Was brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

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