doubledactyls

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Long-short-short, long-short-short

Dactyls in dimeter,

Verse form with choriambs

(Masculine rhyme):

One sentence (two stanzas)

Hexasyllabically

Challenges poets who

Don't have the time.

Roger L. Robison

Hello everyone! I am launching a blog to celebrate and promote the art of double dactyls, for all five of you who follow the tag! Here's hoping we can resurrect the sleeping art form, and share some of the best double dactyls out there!

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Rock 'N' Roll

Higgledy-Piggledy Stone-Pusher Sisyphus Twice cheated Death, but then Learned who was boss:

Sentenced to Hades for Pretereternity, Rolled a stone uphill, just Gathering dross.

Roger L. Robison

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Danish Wit

Higgledy-Piggledy

Franklin D. Roosevelt

High over Jutland flew

In from the East;

"Well," quipped a Minister

Plenipotentiary,

"Something is Groton in

Denmark at least!"

John Hollander

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Impressionism

Higgledy-Piggledy

Vladimir Nabokov

Pared his perceptions down

Beautifully fine,

Firmly insisting on

UnDostoevskian

Flickers of color and

Tremors of line.

Christopher Wallace-Crabbe

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Self Service

Higgledy-Piggledy Gaius, slick stylist, he Gallico Bello et Civili de

Wrote commentarii, Nonegotistical, Propagandistic, still: Caesar, not me.

Kristine G. Wallace

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Fifth

Higgledy-Piggledy

Ludwig van Beethoven

Bored by requests for some

Music to hum,

Finally answered with

Oversimplicity

"Here's my Fifth Symphony:

Dud, duh, duh, DUM!"

E. William Seaman

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musicotherapy

Higgeldy-Piggeldy "Musicotherapy" new-age psychiatry for the effete;

Best known for being a hexasyllabical word in which none of the letters repeat.

R.P.

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Neo-Classic

Higgledy-Piggledy

Jacqueline Kennedy

Went back to Hydra and

Found it a mess-

Neon lights, discotheques...

"Landlord, what's happening?"

" 'Ανθρωπιστηκαμε*

Go home, U.S."

James Merrill

*or, roughly, "We have become human beings!"

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Siebenbürg Siebenbürg Matthias Corvinus Ruled a huge empire as Hungary's king.

Now it's just Sopron to Hódmezővásárhely: He's just the guy with the Crow and the ring.

David Hill

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Inheritance

Higgledy-Piggledy Gay Caius Julius. Tribune sojourning a Long way from home,

Seeking distraction in Nicomedophily, Earned with his service a Province for Rome.

Eva Jaksch

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cosmic background radiation, Smoot's contribution

Higgeldy Piggeldy

Berkeley cosmologist,

also a unit of

measurement, Smoot,

found microscopical

anisotropical

noises which caused him his

own horn to toot.

R.P.

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Hippity, hoppity, Leonard M. Trawick, III, Checking out Kirby-Smith's Dactyls, found fault,

Said they had failed because Polysyllabically All were deficient and Maimed, blind and halt.

H. T. K-S.

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The Lower Criticism

Higgledy-Piggledy

Dorothy Richardson

Wrote a huge book with her

Delicate muse

Where (though I hate to seem

Uncomplimentary)

Nothing much happens and

Nobody screws.

John Hollander

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John Hollander

Higgledy-piggledy, Poet John Hollander Invented a verse form that Required rhyme.

Forming a canon of Double-dactylically Versified stanzas Took some of his time.

Jay Pasachoff

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Double Dactyl

“Auden thought the triolet was too trivial a form to bother with…” –James Fenton Practally dactally W. H. Auden Mastered his verse forms with Scarcely a miss. Some he found slight. There’s no Abecedarius, No triolet, and he Didn’t write this.

–Reese Warner

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Trou Bad!

Higgledy-Piggledy

Richard Planagenet

Sailed off for France, full of

Oedipal scorn:

"Erotogenesis

Can't be all mythic, if

Mother still makes it with

Bertrand de Born."

John Hollander

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Franklin the Ladies' Man

Flimmery, flummery, Benjamin Franklin pre- Vailed with the ladies no  Matter what age.

 "Experimentally,  Trial and error, that's  How I accomplished it!"  Chuckled the sage.

--H. T. K.-S.