A poem or text where the letters or lines contain a hidden date or chronological information.
From Greek chronos (time) + stichos (line/verse). This Byzantine and medieval literary device embedded temporal information into religious and historical verse.
Medieval poets loved hiding dates inside their poems using acrostics or special letter patterns—it was like a riddle that revealed 'this text was written in 1247' to clever readers!
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