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Usually means: Acrostic using last letters vertically.
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  1. telestich: Merriam-Webster
  2. telestich: Collins English Dictionary
  3. telestich: Wordnik
  4. telestich: Wiktionary
  5. telestich: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. telestich (telestic): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. telestich: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Telestich, telestich: Dictionary.com
  9. Telestich: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. telestich: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Telestich: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. telestich: FreeDictionary.org
  13. telestich: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. telestich: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. TELESTICH: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (telestich)

▸ noun:  An acrostic whose message is spelled out in the final letters of each line.

Similar:
telestic, mesostich, acrostich, acrostic, acrosticke, cross-light, abecedarius, upright, acrostick, acrosticism, more...

Opposite:
antistrophe, antithesis, contradiction, reverse

Types:
sonnet, ghazal, abecedarian, sestina, villanelle, haiku, tanka, haibun, more...

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Similar:
telestic, mesostich, acrostich, acrostic, acrosticke, cross-light, abecedarius, upright, acrostick, acrosticism, more...

Opposite:
antistrophe, antithesis, contradiction, reverse

Types:
sonnet, ghazal, abecedarian, sestina, villanelle, haiku, tanka, haibun, more...



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