Transcription of Constantine of Preslav's Bulgarian abecedarius Азбучна молитва ("Alphabetical prayer"). In this work, the first letter of each verse, highlighted in bold, is part of a series of letters that are in alphabetical order (from top to bottom).
An abecedarius (also abecedary and abecedarian) is a special type of acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the letters in the alphabet.[1][2][3][4]
^Brogdan, T.V.F.; Colón, D.A. (2012). "Abecedarius". In Greene, Roland (ed.). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th ed.). Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780691154916.
^Hirsch, Edward (2014). "Abecedarian". A Poet's Glossary. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9780151011957.
^Darasz, Wiktor Jarosław (2003). Mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim [A Short Guide to Polish Verse] (in Polish). Kraków. pp. 44–45. ISBN 8390082969.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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