#156038 - 02/22/06 02:38 PM
Double Dactyl
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At the suggestion of another user, here is a thread for double dactyls. I found a nice, concise list of the rules for double dactyls at thie web page: Here's a detailed list of rules for constructing a double dactyl: (1) The entire poem is a single sentence. (2) There are two stanzas of four lines each. (3) All lines except lines four and eight are two dactylic metrical feet in length. (4) The first line is usually a rhyming nonsense phrase. For example, "Higgledy piggledy." (5) The second line often, but not always, introduces the topic of the poem. If you are writing about a person, it helps if the name of the person you are writing about is naturally in the form of a double dactyl. For example, "Hans Christian Andersen." (6) One line within the second stanza (often the sixth line) is a six-syllable, double-dactylic word, usually an adverb or adjective. For example, "Parthenogenesis." (7) The fourth and eighth lines are not double dactyls. Instead, these lines consist of one dactyl plus a stressed syllable. (8) The fourth and eighth lines rhyme with one another. Given the special form of the fourth and eight lines as mentioned in the preceding rule, it follows that the final, rhyming syllable of these lines must be a stressed syllable. ------------------------- Here's my first-ever attempt (now edited upon further [and by further I mean initial] reading of the rules myself): Antique RoadshowCheerio dearie-o Leslie and Leigh Keno Praising the furniture Said as they grinned: “It’s neither Empire nor Neoclassical but Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired! See how it’s pinned?” Generic Double DactylOracle boracle Person Historical Tales allegorical If they will fit Polysyllabical Iconoclastical Thusly redacted rhe- -torical wit
Edited by Alex Williams (02/25/06 08:11 AM)
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#156040 - 02/22/06 10:11 PM
The naughty, naughty schoolboy
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Skittable knitable
Faldage-the-Critical
Authoritatively
Laid down the rule
Alex, admittedly
Abecedarian,
Unhesitatingly
Went back to school
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#156042 - 02/22/06 11:09 PM
Curses
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from the LINK (click here where the letters are a different color, yes the left button on the mouse) already posted in the first entry in this thread... A dactyl, as you may know, is a poetic foot of the form >-- (ON-off-off). For example, interstate, realize, microphone, cereal, limerick, etc. etc. A double dactyl, naturally enough, is two dactyls in a row.
A double dactyl is also a poem, a form invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal. Quite like a limerick, it has a rigid (if peculiar) structure. Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line with a dactyl and a single accent. The two stanzas have to rhyme on their last line. The first line of the first stanza is repetitive nonsense. The second line of the first stanza is somebody's name -- strictly speaking, a proper noun. Note that this name must itself be double-dactylic. E.g. Gloria Vanderbilt, Jesus of Nazareth, Gilbert and Sullivan, Archangel Gabriel. In the second stanza, one entire line must be a double-dactylic word. E.g. biopsychology ------------------------------------------------------- Albatross Balbatross Baron von Richthofen Chased a Canadian Down to the deck There at such altitudes Acrodendrophilous Double-A gunners soon Blew him to heck
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#156043 - 02/23/06 05:35 AM
Re: Curses
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looking intensely for
the <bow emoticon>,
Alex, er, Will-i-ams
d'serves one, indeed.
seemingly, effortless-
ly, he produces, a
double-dactylian
menagerie!
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#156045 - 02/23/06 10:54 AM
I plead the fifth
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 Higglepod snogglepod Susan B Anthony Honored on dollar coins By U.S. mint Fighting for suffrage so Ever-unflaggingly (Dollars, like voting rights, Largely unspent) ------------------ Higgity hoggity Ludwig van Beethoven Lost all his hearing from years of abuse From his mean father so uberopprobrious Yet brilliant Ludwig van Retained his muse --from Alex who likes a bit of the ultraviolence
Edited by Alex Williams (02/23/06 12:21 PM)
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#156048 - 02/23/06 02:20 PM
it's alive
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I'm glad to give others a smile but I do eagerly anticipate others' contributions. Perhaps I should sit on my hands for awhile and focus on quality more than quantity.  In the meantime take a gander at the "Romeo and Juliet" double dactyl that can be found HERE (scroll down a bit). Truly, a work of mad genius it is.
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#156049 - 02/23/06 09:34 PM
Re: take two dactyls a day
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Funnybones honeybones,
Doctor A Williams has
Scrip for a new kind of
Comical rhyme.
Sharp wits he operates:
Cutting and pasting he
Iatrogenically
Slays us each time!
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#156050 - 02/23/06 10:16 PM
Re: take two dactyls a day
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I guess I confus-ed, that's
right, it's me, etaoin;
the order in which the
name ought to have been.
try as I might, I con-
-tinually evade rules
prevaricatingly
playing the fool.
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#156051 - 02/24/06 11:39 AM
Can't bury the urge to double dactyl
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Coarse-ary sorcery
Bath Wife of Chaucer, G.
Told of a rapist sent
Out on a quest:
Married to mutable
Octogenarian,
Faced with dilemma, said
“Dear you know best.”
Edited by Alex Williams (02/24/06 12:58 PM)
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#156053 - 02/25/06 01:20 PM
The Physician's Tale
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The Physician’s Tale
woefully soulfully
comely Verginia
Apius creyves her for
lecherus sport
conspiratorial
perjurer Claudius
habeus corpus
obteyns from the court
fader Verginius
axiomatically
practyces filicide
honour to save
prosecutorial
consequence: Claudius,
banished; for Apius,
unhallowed grave
--by Alex, who writes in the style of the old masters and shamelessly rips off John Held, Jr's epitaphs
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#156054 - 02/27/06 07:44 AM
Volitant
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Heffalump huffalump
Danaus plexippus,
volitant royalty
of wind and earth,
aposematically
warning all predators:
Alkaloid flavor here,
give me wide berth.
--by Alex, whose doggerel may leave a bad taste in your mouth
Edited by Alex Williams (02/27/06 07:46 AM)
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#180319 - 11/14/08 07:09 PM
Re: Volitant
[Re: Coffeebean]
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holey frijole a-
nother dactylian
starting up something that
had faded 'way
looking to find us un-
characteristic'lly
sleep-walking behind the
rhythmic parade.
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#180353 - 11/17/08 12:11 AM
Re: Volitant
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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#180370 - 11/17/08 02:32 PM
Re: Volitant
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Sneakingly, creepingly,
some think annoyingly,
twosleepy comes in to
fix up the mess
made of a Spanish word,
guess that you never heard;
"frijole" does not ex-
ist; it's "frijol" no less!
Spanglishly, manglishly
statesians mess up in
trying to use words that
aren't English norm,
stumblingly, humblingly,
Even the best can learn
"-es" removes from the
plural noun form.
Wow! Did I write that?!? That was fun! Don't know if I followed all the rules, but I think so... This is a problem usually with "tamales", from which people want to make "tamale", but it doesn't exist; it's "tamal" in the singular. Since so many Spanish words end in vowels, those are easy; just remove the "s". Hope you enjoyed my mini-lesson! :0)
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#180373 - 11/17/08 03:18 PM
Re: Volitant
[Re: twosleepy]
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'njoying the lesson I
stand by my usage I
know that I've heard it a
time on TV
blame not me, uh-uh my
vocabularic pe-
culiar niceties
trump prescript'vies!
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#180392 - 11/18/08 07:43 AM
scat
[Re: BranShea]
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Sniggley piggly
Ding dong a diggley
Wop bop a loo bop a-biddle bam bo
Widdley waddley
Sham-a-lama ding daddley
Hi de hi de hi de hi de hi de hi de hi de ho!
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#180393 - 11/18/08 08:27 AM
Re: scat
[Re: Alex Williams]
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heh
I remember a similar bit of poetry on an episode of Night Court.
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#180417 - 11/18/08 08:58 PM
Re: scat
[Re: Coffeebean]
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#180442 - 11/19/08 12:41 PM
Re: Volitant
[Re: Coffeebean]
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Zippity Lippity
Catherine DeMedicis,
Looking to end the
religious divides,
Issued her Edict so
Idealistically;
Nevertheless many
Lost their poor hides.
Something made me think of Catherine DeMedicis a couple weeks ago. I don't even remember now what it was. But I thought: "Aha! A double dactyl could arise from this!" And I began to cogitate. Actually, all I truly remembered about her from my school daze was that she was a ruthless woman and a poisoner. As you can see, after doing a little research, I decided to praise her for her good, yet futile, attempt to bring Catholics and Hugenots together. So you see, wordplay is not only fun but educational. I learned things about her I had not known!
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#203313 - 11/18/11 07:20 AM
Re: Double Dactyl
[Re: obihave]
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Boldly Mongolian
Hordeing old Genghis Khan
Swept through the Steppes “like
A Wolf on the Fold”
Mightily, Blightily
Quite genocidally
Reliev’d all the Slavs of
Their silver and gold
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#203314 - 11/18/11 07:21 AM
Re: Double Dactyl
[Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Meninov Leninov
Vladimir Ulanov
Said in Geneva in
Jan. ’17,
“I fear revolution
Will not be solution
In my lifetime: when, it
remains to be seen”
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#203315 - 11/18/11 07:33 AM
A tribute?
[Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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The Rev Ian Paisley, leader and founder of both the Independent Presbyterian Church and the Democratic Unionist Party in N. Ireland, has just retired from the Church at the age of (I think) 78. He retired from the political party aout 18 months ago. He was noted for his very loud voice and remarkably powerful sermons in his south Belfast chapel. This is to him ...
Lazily Aisily
The Reverend Paisley
Steps from his pulpit and
Makes his way out
Not any more will he
Declamatorily
Raise East Belfast with his
Shout from the South
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#203332 - 11/18/11 03:23 PM
Re: A tribute?
[Re: obihave]
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Kerotsky Perlotsky
L.Bronstein (or Trotsky)
Fell out with Lenin
Before 1910,
Came back to the Bolshie fold
Talented manifold
And led the Red Guards to
Full victory.
(2nd stanza, 1st ine is unorthodox - but so was Trotsky!)
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#203333 - 11/18/11 03:32 PM
Re: A tribute?
[Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Heidelburg Hoodelburg
Albert Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha paid court to the
Young British Queen,
Married her, carried her
Then didn’t tarry here
After which she was rare-
Ly to be seen
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