Editing Chronogram (section)

===In poetry===
[[Neo-Hebraic poetry]], which laid especial stress on the formal side of verse, also cultivated chronograms. A number of Hebrew poems were produced in the first half of the 19th century, in which the letters of each verse have the same numerical value, being generally the year in which it was written. A New-year's poem in this style, written in the year 579 (=1819), is found in Shalom Cohen's "Ketab Yosher" (ed. [[Warsaw]], p.&nbsp;146). Two years later [[Jacob Eichenbaum]] wrote a poem in honor of a friend, each line of which had the numerical value of 581 ("Kol Zimrah", ed. [[Leipzig|Leipsic]], pp.&nbsp;50–53). While this poem is really a work of art, in spite of the artifice employed, Eichenbaum's imitators have in their translations merely produced rhymes with certain numerical values. [[Gottlober]] (in "Ha-Kokabim", i. 31) wrote an excellent satire on these rimesters, each line of his poem having the numerical value of 618 (=1858).<ref name="jewish_encyclopedia" /> The first two verses of the poem are as follows:

{{rtl-para|he|עם הלפקים כה אריבה<br/>
ולאלה כגמול ידם להם אשיבה}}

But even poets like [[I. L. Gordon]] and [[A. B. Lewensohn]] have a great weakness for the לפקים ("minor eras"), though employing them only in the super-scriptions to their poems.<ref name="jewish_encyclopedia">{{JewishEncyclopedia|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=495&letter=C|article=Chronogram|inline=1}}</ref>