Some people might call Acrostics a ‘cheat’ genre of poetry, the same way they might think a limerick is something of a lower form of a highbrow literary art. These people never knew the late great Jack Collom, for whom Acrostics were a specialty, and have never grasped how surprisingly difficult the meter of a limerick is. Just ask Isaac Asimov.
A n accidental
N ame for a thing popped up
A ll at once, in my brain.
G enerated, not from logic, or
R ationality, but
A
M isplaced definition, in my memory.