#double dactyls

[doubledactyls]

No Play

Jacobin-Jacobin

Citizen Robespierre

Died on the guillotine

Cursing the day,

Leaving his rep up to

Historiography

Sparing us yet a third

Bad German play.

John Hollander

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[doubledactyls]

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!

[doubledactyls]

Plus Ca Change...

Moishele Moishele

Moses Maimonides

Bowing and chanting "Bar

Uch Adonai,"

Picked up the telephone

Anachronistically

Ordered pastrami with

Mustard on rye.

Eric Salzman

[doubledactyls]

Above All That?

Higgledy-Piggledy

Mary of Magdala

Said to the dolorous

Mother of God:

"Parthenogensis

I for one left to the

Simple amoeba or

Gasteropod."

James Merrill

[doubledactyls]

John Cantacuzene

Higgledy-Piggledy

John Cantacuzene

Swaddled in Byzantine

Pearl-seeded robes

"Put out the eyes of his

Iconophanical

Prelate, for piercing his

Priestly earlobes."

John Bellairs

[doubledactyls]

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

[doubledactyls]

Nominalism

Higgledy-Piggledy

Juliet Capulet

Cherished the tenderest

Thoughts of a rose:

"What's in a name?" said she,

Etymologically,

"Save that all Montagues

Stink in God's nose."

Anthony Hecht