Strawberry blackberry
Gary of Yarberry
Planned a big bash for the
Chaplain of Spain,
until he suddenly
Undemocratically
called off the party be-
Cause of the rain
Hummingly, chummingly
Juniper Cummingly
prayed in his chamber for
sweet things that were
not incidentally
characteristically
whispering muttering
wholly unheard.
Greenamen beanamen
Dismas of Veeneman
Conquered the world with out-
Breaking a sweat
Then in a moment of
Psychopathology
Ordered the province to
Pay off his debt.
Bannister canister
sang in a chorus her
pretty new song
All about
uranographical
planets appearing in
red on her thong.
Amazon gastronome
Wore a red bathing suit
All the day long,
But her dad said she was
Extraterrestrial
When she dove into a
Deep billabong
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Here's a detailed list of rules for constructing a double dactyl:
The entire poem is a single sentence.
There are two stanzas of four lines each.
All lines except lines four and eight are two dactylic metrical feet in length.
The first line is usually a rhyming nonsense phrase. For example, "Higgledy piggledy."
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."
One line within the second stanza (often the sixth line) is a six-syllable, double-dactylic word, usually an adverb or adjective. For example, "Partheunnogenesis."
The fourth and eighth lines are not double dactyls. Instead, these lines consist of one dactyl plus a stressed syllable. (That makes achoriamb, for those of you keeping track at home.)
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. (Trivia: a rhyme on a stressed syllable is called amasculine rhyme, which is the term Robison used in the double dactyl shown above.)
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