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In Acrostic poems, the first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word.

The word often is the subject of the poem.

An example of an acrostic poem is:

Elegantly and efficiently shaped
Good to eat
Great fun to find at Easter
Smooth shelled

In this case the topic of the poem is eggs so each line starts with a letter from eggs.