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[rayt]

For a text like below, there is another simple text implied from the first letter of each sentence, what is the term to call this structure? Is it acronym? Or ???

Be my Valentine, for I
Each day have thought of you.
My whole life couldn't manage what
Your ready smile can do,
Vanquishing my loneliness
As though all light were new.
Let me be your Valentine
Even as you're mine,
Needing what I have to give
That each might each define
In friendship and in harmony,
Now you, now I the melody,
Each helping each to shine.

Thank you very much.

[pugachevV]

An acronym is a word formed from the first letters of other words, so you have an acronym in your example.