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A double dactyl is a form of verse consisting of two quatrains each with three double-dactyl lines and invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal, but there is more to a double dactyl. What is double dactyl in poetry (complete definition)?
Wobbly Legs
When I was younger and thought of old age
Thought we all became senile at this elderly stage
It appears I was wrong, I can still go potty
And able to dress this tired old body
Try as I...
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Categories:
age,
Form: Double Dactyl
A nap,,Just a nap in noon I'll take", I always say in sudden,
Since my eyes have already rotten,
and my breath's beat forgotten.
My clothes full of cotton,
sadly the Fabric foresworn,
of all the drawn scorn.
And...
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Categories:
bird,
Form: Double Dactyl
Little brothers warmthWhen I was locked behind the bathroom door,
since I didn't wanted to face what I was made for,
you kept waiting behind even more,
which made me unsure.
Protecting I should you in this life,...
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Categories:
time,
Form: Double Dactyl
Dabble DactylsI have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos should give...
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Categories:
giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
MesmerizesMesmerizes
Holly Dolly
Mesmerizes me
Ahead her work
Calls Me
Proofs her love
Not for me
But for hersake
Abandoning Romance...
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Categories:
10th grade, abortion, beauty,
Form: Double Dactyl
Deceitful TonguesRabasha Kabasha
Old Prophet Noadiah
Rifling society
Lying to God
Judgement shall fall on thee
Incomprehensibly
Thou art an enemy
One to the Lord...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Double Dactyl
Van HelsingWig-wam
Gabriel Van Helsing
came so great like
a speeding arrow,
never comes late
under call as
megalomaniac
and charging sparrow....
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Categories:
hero,
Form: Double Dactyl
Scotus PickExtraordinarily
sterling law pedigree
Jackson, Ketanji Brown's
confirmation went down:
no ugly fight.
Ology, Elegy
What's this fresh hell I see?
Lenient sentencing,
can't define womanhood,
natural rights.
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Name ordered based on meter only: dactyl, dactyl
As an answer to a written question, Jackson wrote, "I...
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Categories:
political,
Form: Double Dactyl
Politics and PulchritudeHiggledy-Piggledy
Forty-fifth president
Some think him marvelous;
Others a jerk.
Chasm political
Breached by consensus, his
Cosmetological
Routine needs work....
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Categories:
fun, funny, political,
Form: Double Dactyl
Sir Edmund HillarySkillary Spillary
Sir Edmund Hillary
Climber, Philanthropist
First up Mount Everest
Liked to keep bees
New Zealand juvenile
High-altitudinal
Knighted in fifty three
Maintained humility
Loved Nepalese...
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Categories:
history,
Form: Double Dactyl
Benoit B MandelbrotBoggledy Mindalot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Perfect recursion sought
Infinitely!
Franticly, fractally
Near-mathemagickly
Spiraling endlessly
Exquisitely!
Bratwurst and sausages
Mandelbrot hostages
Escaping inwardly
Labyrinths for me!...
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Categories:
silly,
Form: Double Dactyl
Emiline Richardson
Diggety Duggety
Emiline Richardson
Studied the Etruscans
Classically
Votive bronze objects, all
Archaeological:
What I dug up on her
Posthumously
...
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Categories:
history, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
Carolyn, MortifiedRecipice Precipice
Carolyn Child would be
Mortified watching me
Cooking with joy and glee
Random ingredients
Thrown in a pot!
Hardly comestible
Near-indigestible
Never repeatable
Undefatigable
Principal requisite
Just make it hot!
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Not a pure double dactyl, but in the spirit of one…
Julia Carolyn Child is the...
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Categories:
humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
Harmless Or SeriousHurgle-y, Gurgle-y
Gastrointestinal
Silly sounds stomachs make:
Borborgymi!
Reflux and GERD both see
Hyperacidity,
Heartburn and stomach aches:
More Tums for me!
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Note to self: Double Dactyl, somewhat akin to a limerick… A dactyl is a three syllable word with the emphasis on...
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Categories:
health,
Form: Double Dactyl
The Maigue Poets of CroomFriggity friggity!
MacRaith and O’ Tuama:
poets incessant and
blabbering bores.
Publican served insults –
flibbertigibbeting.
Rhetoric ingrained dull;
flyting supreme!
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The limerick is an English comedic five-line poem. The form could be found in England as far back as...
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Categories:
friend, language, poets,
Form: Double Dactyl
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