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	Double dactyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dactyl is a poetic foot of the form >-- (ON-off-off).
		Like a limerick, it has a rigid structure and is usually humorous, but the double dactyl is considerably more rigid and difficult to write.
		There must be two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line with a dactyl and a single accent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double_dactyl (246 words)

	Glossary poetic terms D
		An example of a dactylic dimeter is The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson.
		The distich is particularly associated with Greek elegiac verse and consists of one line of dactylic hexameter and one line of dactylic pentameter.
		'Higgledy-piggledy' and the fourth is a dactyl and a macron.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /glossary_poetic_terms_d.htm (640 words)

	FJ.org: a literary resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Dactylic Meter - similarly, the dactylic meter is also made up of units of three syllables.
		Dactylic hexameter: "Faint was the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms..." (FAINT was the
		Dactylic is a more waltz-like meter, with its slow movement and dying fall.
	fribblejunk.org /essays/meter.php (1487 words)

	Daenmark: The Joy of the Double-Dactyl ...
		Double dactyls were invented by Antony Hecht and Paul Pascal.
		A double dactyl, naturally enough, is two dactyls in a row.
		Finally, here's a bad example (in that the second line is not double dactylic and that the rhyme is weak and etc etc...) by an anonymous poet...
	www.daen.dk /archives/000146.html (199 words)

	Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The meters are iambs, trochees, spondees, anapests and dactyls.
		DACTYLIC (/ x x): This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the final dactyl)
		A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8).
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/meter.html (216 words)

	Appendix
		Like the Greek dimeter, the Indic dimeter is an 8-syllable line, or a 7-syllable catalectic variant; also the Indic trimeter is a 12-syllable line, or an 11-syllable catalectic variant.
		There is internal evidence to show that the pattern __ is foreign to the second, third, fourth, and fifth feet of the dactylic hexameter since it involves phraseological restrictions that do not apply to the pattern _oo: words with a spondaic ending are shunned, whereas those with a dactylic ending are not.
		The choriambic dimeter is also found as the first part of a larger unit known as the Eupolidean verse, as most clearly attested in the parabasis of Aristophanes' Clouds (518-562).
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHB/appendix.html (7520 words)

	Rogue Project Leader Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The challenge is to create a double dactyl that has a connection, however tenuous, to program management or acquisition.
		Dimeter means two of ‘em, as in: FRANKlin D. evelt; PLEASE put the CAT out now.
		Line 1: 2 dactyls: nonsense words, ideally relating to the subject matter of the rest of the verse, but often simply “higgledy, piggledy,” which is another name for the
	www.rogueprojectleader.com /3dd.htm (253 words)

	double dactyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A dactyl, as you may know, is a poetic foot of the form +-- (ON-off-off).
		A double dactyl is also a poem, a form [...] Quite like a limerick, it has a rigid (if peculiar) structure.
		The first name I came up with was Julia Butterfly but I've as of yet been unable to produce a decent effort on that front so my thoughts of double dactylic creativity had been stalled (it'll have to be a good one, I know her so I can't make it half-assed).
	www.akuaku.org /archives/2003/04/double_dactyl.shtml (593 words)

	01.03.07: The Poetry We Sing: A Women's Perspective
		The six basic rhythms of varying stressed and unstressed syllables are meters known as iambs, trochees, spondees, pyrrhic, anapests, and dactyls.
		Most uses of iambs, trochees, anapests, and dactyls comprise the entire line of poetry, although it is not a rule.
		Another option for introducing this section is to utilize nursery rhymes and children's songs that are universal and carry with them a specified flow of stressed and unstressed syllables.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/2001/3/01.03.07.x.html (6670 words)

	Reuven Tsur
		What is more, when the dactylic rhyme occurs in a ternary metre (dactyl, anapaest or amphibrach), two weak positions are grouped forward, and two backward, with the same (last) stressed syllable in a strong position (as opposed to the binary metres, in which between any two strong positions there is only one weak position).
		We have observed that the dactylic rhyme is a highly marked prosodic form and, as a result, it tends to have a witty or comic perceived affect.
		The sense of more than usual security is generated by the rigid dactylic dimeter; the sense of more than usual insecurity is generated by the unstable dactylic rhyme, on the one hand, and the unpredictable sequence of rhymes, on the other.
	www.tau.ac.il /~tsurxx/RhymeGestalt_2.html (12151 words)

	SHAKSPER 2000: Re: Titus Double Dactyl
		The last line of the first quatrain and the last line of the second quatrain rhyme; each is a single dactylic foot.
		So the really fine verse Dale sent in is a double dactyl except that it lacks the single-word line.
		The first line uses nonsense syllables to set the meter: "Higgledy-piggledy." One of the lines must consist of a single proper name, like Titus Andronicus, and one of a single double dactylic word, such as "antediluvian." Ideally the name and the long word ought not be in the same stanza, but exceptions are allowed.
	www.shaksper.net /archives/2000/1902.html (219 words)

	Wordcarvers: Double Dactyl Challenge
		The double dactyl is two quatrains of dactylic dimeter.
		Dactylic dimeter means a six-syllable line with two stresses on the first and fourth, as:
		That line still has the same problem of not even being close to dactylic dimeter: "álways pícks háir cólors." Since "hair" is the middle of three stresses, it winds up being demoted to a lesser stress, so effectively you have XxXxXx: trochaic trimeter.
	www.eosdev.com /cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=15&post=10968 (677 words)

	Meter.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Cummings also employs iambic dimeter to accentuate the unusual syntax in his macabre, posthumously-published "Me up at does" (73 Poems #12), which describes the expression in the eyes of a poisoned mouse.
		A later example (of which there are many) of Cummings' iambic dimeter verse is "at just 5 a" (73 Poems #15), which maintains a constant meter through four quatrains, each rhymed abba.
		Cummings' thorough education in traditional meters occasionally surfaces in the form of a lesser-used metrical structure, such as dactylic dimeter, which he used in a rhymed, twelve-line poem, "love is a spring at which" (1 x 1 #23).
	www.bsu.edu /web/rai/Index/Meter.htm (4282 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.9.17
		In Aeschylus' compositions, the contrast between anapaestic, dactylic, iambic, trochaic, and dochmiac sections is so straightforward, that the simple rhythmical categorization represented by those "five basic meters" was sufficient for Scott's purposes (p.
		It's hard to imagine an experienced audience looking for a thematic resonance in the appearance of dochmiacs in a suffering protagonist's terminal kommos, but the dactylic hexameters are certainly not conventional.
		In any case there is no other reason for the audience to take the purely dactylic opening of the second stanza as dactylo-epitrite, except that the first strophe contained dactylo-epitrite.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1996/96.09.17.html (4271 words)

	Latin Meter: Iambic
		As you already know if you have studied the dactylic hexameter, it is possible for a long to be realized as two shorts.
		In the dactylic hexameter, it's very easy to get used to the possibility that a long element can be resolved as two shorts.
		After all, even with all the possible variation that this permits there are still only 64 possible variations of the dactylic hexameter line.
	tutor.bestlatin.net /about/meter_iambic.htm (854 words)

	My tongue broke out in unknown strains: Double dactyls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is entirely typical that, even though I am supposedly a doctoral student focusing on poetry, Ariel introduced me to a form I'd never even heard of, the double dactyl.
		Each line must be dactylic dimeter, except for the fourth line of each stanza which must be what the link above describes as a dactyl and a stress.
		The second stanza must contain a dactylic dimeter line that's a single word.
	unknownstrains.blogspot.com /2005/10/double-dactyls.html (562 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A "foot", in the poet's glossary, is a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
		There are many varied combinations possible; only four prevail in English poetry: one unstressed syllable, followed by one stressed : iamb one stressed syllable, then one unstressed : trochee two unstressed, one stressed : anapest two stressed, one unstressed : dactyl A rhythm built by repetitions of iambs is "iambic".
		Repetition of trochees is trochaic; anapests, anapestic; dactyls, dactylic.
	www.mit.edu /~mbarker/poetry/wevegot.txt (464 words)

	Raymond Succre. Isamy Camreon
		A single foot, or, the rhythm done once, is monometer, twice is dimeter, three times is trimeter, etc… The number of rhythmic feet in a line is the meter used.
		Voice is the building block of the fugue form, and it’s made of rhythms and their meters, nothing more.
		Dactylic rhythm is an accent followed by two unnaccented syllables: /OO Now, voices 1-4 are free from exact repeat, and the fifth voice has been introduced.
	www.kunstderfuge.com /theory/succre.htm (5601 words)

	Radical Druid: Questioning
		(cross-posted from poetics forum) The exercise this week relates to the poetic foot the dactyl, which is basically a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
		The exercise this week relates to the poetic foot the dactyl, which is basically a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
		Here's the example I used, with successive stanzas in dactylic monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter and hexameter...
	www.radicaldruid.com /movabletype/archives/2005/01/questioning.html (296 words)

	a fool in the forest: Double Dactyls
		A week ago, I crafted a new bit of topical light verse, a double dactyl on the issuance of marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco.
		The double dactyl requires two quatrains, each consisting of three lines of dactylic dimeter and a concluding choriamb (or, if you will, another dactyl with an extra syllable tacked on.) The final lines of the quatrains must rhyme.
		So sue me. The double dactyl is a fine form for glib political comment or just for a lark, and no one will ever get the impression that you take yourself too seriously when you use it.
	declarationsandexclusions.typepad.com /foolblog/double_dactyls/index.html (4457 words)

	To Carmen on his 60th birthday
		A dactyl is a three syllable poetic foot with the accent on the first syllable, e.g.
		Thus a double dactyl is two dactyls in a row like "Higgledy piggledy".
		A double dactyl is also a poem, a form invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal.
	www.math.wisc.edu /~robbin/carmenBirthday.html (693 words)

	Literary Terms and Definitions D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		DACTYL: A three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses.
		Verse written in feet that follow this pattern are said to be in dactylic meter.
		This failed policy of Danegeld ultimately led to large portions of northern England being settled by the Vikings in the area known as the Danelaw, which in turn played a key part in the evolution of the English language through the incorporation of Scandinavian loan-words.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/lit_terms_D.html (6886 words)

	Stairs of Great Britain: nascent jellyfish
		Posted by: Faustus, M.D. at November 6, 2003 06:46 AM Parliament Hall, it was (or would have been), the Houses of Parliament not having been built at that time.
		Since the genera in question were all types of Pterodactyl, the resulting art-form thereby derived was called dactylic dimeter.
		One stanza = 3 lines dactylic dimeter followed by 1 line w/ dactyl and a single accent.
	stairs.happenchance.com /archives/2003/11/nascent_jellyfi.php (810 words)

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		double dactyl - A six-syllable foot where the first and fourth syllable are long and the others short.
		This is also used occasionally to refer to dactylic dimeter, which is a line composed of two dactyls (
	www.poetrykit.org /pkl/lexicon/D.htm (682 words)

	A Beginner's Guide to Prosody: Part II (Meter)
		The number of syllables per line will be determined by the number of syllables in the line's predominant foot.
		Thus a line of iambic or trochaic pentameter will have ten syllables; a line of anapestic or dactylic pentameter will have fifteen syllables.
		In fact, trimeter and tetrameter lines are much more common when the predominant foot is anapestic or dactylic, because an anapestic or dactylic trimetrical line will have nine syllables, and a trisyllabic tetrametrical line will have twelve syllables.
	tinablue.homestead.com /meter.html (1157 words)

	Double Dactyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is said to be developed by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal, and used extensively by John Hollander.
		The poem is two quatrains of dactylic dimeter.
		The second line is a dactylic dimeter proper name.
	www.poetsforthewar.org /forms/000/90.shtml (104 words)

	Humanities 1B Double Dactyls Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In each stanza, the first three lines are dactylic dimeter (two dactylic feet); the fourth line is composed of a dactyl followed by a single, stressed syllable.
		A double dactyl is usually humorous or, at the least, ironic.
		Other descriptions, discussions, and examples of double dactyls, as well as further links, can be found on Alex Chaffee's Double Dactyls web page.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/jwss/hum1b/ddactyls.html (368 words)

	Scansion
		Following are the major types of meter (the adjective form is in parenthesis).
		A verse of one foot (of any type) is called monometer; of two feet, dimeter; of three feet, trimeter; of four feet, tetrameter; of five feet, pentameter; of six feet, hexameter; of seven feet, heptameter; of eight feet, octameter.
		Thus a verse consisting of two trochaic feet is called trochaic dimeter; of five iambic feet, iambic pentameter, and so on.
	aliscot.com /ensenanza/1302/scansion.htm (351 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Metrical Challenge #8
		The double dactyl is a form that was conceived by Anthony Hecht.
		It consists of two quatrains: the first line of the first quatrain is a nonsense invocation; the second is a double dactyl name.
		L5 is anapestic, and even with the well established dactylic meter, it's hard for me to convert it (though I did manage).
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/archive/index.php/t-10186.html (2270 words)

	Whither Zither Peter Berryman Madison Folk Music Society Mad Folk News
		Mostly I talked about the dactylic foot, with it's three syllable (stressed - unstressed - unstressed) waltz-like form, and the trochaic foot, with its two syllable (stressed - unstressed), polka-like form.
		I mentioned that the name of that notoriously wild poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was what got me started thinking about this, because her name was such a great example of the dactylic foot (at least until you get to the last syllable).
		Each stanza begins with three lines, each containing two dactyls, which is called "dactylic dimeter." In other words, the first three lines each go like this: "BUM ta ta, BUM ta ta." Then the fourth line of each stanza has one dactyl followed by a single accent.
	members.aol.com /wzither/wzjan06.html (775 words)

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