The contemporary poet John Bosworth experiments with and uses this abedarian form to add urgency to a poem that is both light in tone and deep in exploration of theme. Notice how the form and the sequence of the alphabet is woven into the lines of the poem. This abecedarian is also very much about […]

The form called an abecedarian is an ancient one, found in early religions texts and developed and experimented with in many languages. In English based abecedarians, notice how the letters a, b, c, and d form the pattern for the name of this term: abecedarian. In a traditional acrostic-like abecedarian, the  letters at the beginning […]