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An Abecedarius is a specific type of acrostic poem in which successive lines or verses begin with each letter of the alphabet in order. 

Geoffrey Chaucer’s 23-verse poem “A. B. C.”—written in the 14th century, before J, U and W were even added to the English alphabet—is among the form’s most famous examples.

Except when your foreign neighbour Keith received eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird……..

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

George Carlin

A palindrome is of course a word (civic, radar, rotator) or a phrase (“don’t nod,” “was it a cat I saw?”) that reads the same backwards as forwards.

As a form of constrained writing, however, palindromes can be extended to extraordinary lengths……………..

In his 2012 book, This Is A Book, the comedian and writer Demetri Martin compiled a 500-word poem that actually reads the same backwards and forwards.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Stephen Wright

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard.