Among the given options, the one that states another characteristic of acrostic poetry is:
A. The vertical word is usually the subject of the poem.
- As explained in the question, the first letter of each line in an acrostic poem forms a word.
- That word can be read vertically in the poem, and it is not just a random choice of the author.
- The word formed vertically reveals the theme or subject of the poem. For example, Edgar Allan Poe wrote his cousin a poem in which the words formed are her name: Elizabeth Rebecca.
- Therefore, the cousin is the subject of the poem, and her name is formed by the first letters in each line.
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