Sometimes used as a mnemonic device, an abecedarian poem is marked by adherence to this
Sometimes the letters are to be read upwards instead of down- 
wards ... Alcaic Verse : A strophic form of ^olian poetry, used, of Greeks, by 
Alcaeus,... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "A study of English rhyme" - Internet Archive [PAR] This characteristic, which was so marked that it remains in most translations, 
appears ..... Rhyme seems to have grown naturally into use in the later Latin 
poetry.