"Drawing"

Delightful pictures
Released onto paper
As
Wild
Imaginations are
Netted with the
Grasp of a crayon.

In an acrostic poem, the title is the subject of the poem. It is usually only one or two words long. Each letter of the title starts a line of the poem. The title word is therefore written vertically as the first letter of each line.

Look at the first letters in each line of "Drawing." Do you see the word "drawing" spelled out?

Lewis Carroll included an acrostic, using the name of ten-year-old Alice Pleasance Liddell, in Through the Looking Glass.

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From R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet, written by Judy Young, with permission from the publisher, Sleeping Bear Press. Text copyright © 2006 Judy Young.