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I'm one of those lucky folk who gets to do what she loves for a living.
Uh-oh.
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> where you come from?
New Zealand: where the men are men and the sheep look scared!
Welcome, fellow loon :)
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Hi, Elizabeth! Great name you have  . I gotta question you though: as a fellow fan of double-dactyls, I think the word flatulopetic lacks a syllable to fully qualify for the seventh (actually, isn't the sixth that should be a single word?) line. What are the rules you know? PS Mr Capfka, you have widened the screen. 
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According to this site < http://www.stinky.com/dactyl/dactyl.html> it seems to be optional which line in the second stanza the single word goes into. One example has single words in the fifth and seventh and another has its single word in the sixth line.
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Higgledy-Piggledy Dactyls in dimeter, Verse form with choriambs (Masculine rhyme): One sentence (two stanzas) Hexasyllabically Challenges poets who Don't have the time. http://lonestar.texas.net/~robison/dactyls.htmlOn the other hand, this account doesn't seem to specify the name element, and other descriptions also suggest the hex can be placed almost anywhere in the last stanza (excepting the last line). http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9125173
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The double dactyl was invented in 1951 by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal. In 1966 it was introduced to the public, first in an Esquire article, then in Jiggery Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls edited that year by Hecht and John Hollander (and including contributions from, among others, founder Pascal, Donald Hall, Richard Howard, and James Merrill).
The form has a pleasing, sing-song rhythm; its stringent rules provide a challenge to the poet:
The poem has eight lines, divided into two equal stanzas;
all lines except those at the ends of the stanzas are double-dactylic, having two dactylic feet (STRONG weak weak STRONG weak weak);
lines at the ends of the stanzas are shorter (STRONG weak weak STRONG);
the stanzas rhyme;
the first line is a piece of nonsense ("higgledy- piggledy" is often used, and double dactyls are sometimes called higgledy-piggledies);
the second line is the double-dactylic name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person;
another line of the poem, most commonly the sixth, must be a single double-dactylic word. Although it suggests most commonly the sixth, the first example on the page is one of Hechts which places the hex on the seventh line, so confirming the variability. http://www.ddaze.com/04LVResource/zDactyl.htm
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