Usually means: Poem where letters form word.
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  1. paracrostic: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. paracrostic: Wiktionary
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  5. Paracrostic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. paracrostic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Paracrostic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. paracrostic: FreeDictionary.org
  9. paracrostic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. Paracrostic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.

Similar:
acrostic, paradelle, verse, prosimetrum, ver., strophe, trochaic, versemaking, paeonics, serpentine verse, more...

Opposite:
acrostic, telestich, mesostic, chronogram

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acrostic, paradelle, verse, prosimetrum, ver., strophe, trochaic, versemaking, paeonics, serpentine verse, more...

Opposite:
acrostic, telestich, mesostic, chronogram



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