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Encyclopedia: Double dactyl
A dactyl is a poetic foot of the form >-- (ON-off-off). For example, matador, realize, cereal, limerick, etc. A double dactyl can therefore mean simply two dactyls in a row. A double dactyl is also a...
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The double-dactyl is a short verse form invented by the American poets Anthony Hecht and John Hollander in 1966. The poem consists of one sentence containing forty-four syllables that are distributed over eight lines and fall into two four-line stanzas. Greco-Roman Double-Dactyls...
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Index to Double-Dactyls at The Tenth Muse (A-G) Dactyls in series; Daedalus; Darwin; Dawkins; Daylight Saving Time; D-D Rules; D-D Rules; D-D Rules; D-D Rules; D-D Rules; D-D Rules; D-D Rules; December; Demokritos; Descartes; Deus ex machina; Dian of Ephesus;
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The rules of the double dactyl are set forth in the classic Jiggery Pokery, ed. Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Atheneum, 1967. The meter should be obvious from the examples below. The first line is dactylic rhyming nonsense.
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A double dactyl is a kind of short, witty poem that has strict rules governing its construction. It is also known as a "Higgledy Piggledy.
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I've long had a fondness for certain poetic forms oft-derided as doggerel. One of my favorite such forms is the Double Dactyl, The third line can be any old pair of dactyls, usually beginning to describe or discuss the subject given in the second line. The fourth line is truncated, missing the last two syllables of...
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Posted on February 23, 2005 at 04:30 PM in Double Dactyls, Poetry | Permalink | Comments (2) Posted on December 09, 2004 at 01:59 AM in Double Dactyls,
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Perhaps you have been curious as to why I have posted no new double dactyls since before the turn of the year. I blame a drought of inspiration, and a temporary inability to spot or conjure up properly dactylic proper names.
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Beyond the double dactyls.(The Poems and Plays of Oliver St. John Gogarty )(Book Review) ... find Irish Literary Supplement articles. OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY The Poems & Plays of Oliver St John Gogarty Collected, Edited and Introduced by A. Nor... OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY The Poems & Plays of Oliver St John Gogarty Collected,
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When teams solved the first half of Counterintelligence, they had to compose a hunt-themed double dactyl. Here's some of the ones we received. Poetry, shmoetry, IIF's dictator ; Thought that the puzzle ; On dactyls was great; Shame that submitting these ; Monday at four o'clock ; Ante-meridiem's ; *Hours* too late.
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