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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Double dactyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Like a limerick, it has a rigid structure and is usually humorous, but the double dactyl is considerably more rigid and difficult to write.
		A dactyl is a poetic foot which consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
		As a result, the double dactyl is one of the few poetic forms whose topics are limited by the stress patterns of a subject's name.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Double-dactyl (677 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In quantitative verse, such as Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight.
		A useful mnemonic for remembering this long-short-short pattern is to consider the relative lengths of the three bones of a human finger: beginning at the knuckle, it is one long bone followed by two shorter ones.
		Dactyls are the metrical foot of Greek elegiac poetry, which followed a line of dactylic hexameter with dactylic pentameter.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dactyl_(poetry) (234 words)

	Double dactyl - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		For example, matador, realize, cereal, limerick, etc. A double dactyl can therefore mean simply two dactyls in a row.
		A double dactyl is also a verse form, also known as "higgledy piggledy," invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal.
		Double dactyl, External links, Poetic form and Metrical feet.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Double_dactyl (339 words)

	Daenmark: The Joy of the Double-Dactyl ...
		Brilliant examples of that odd and syncopated verse form, the double dactyl.
		Double dactyls were invented by Antony Hecht and Paul Pascal.
		A dactyl, as you may know, is a poetic foot of the form >-- (ON-off-off).
	www.daen.dk /archives/000146.html (199 words)

	dactyl - SiteTracer.com
		A dactyl, is a metrical foot consisting of one long...
		The Dactyl Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 1996 in the early evening of the postmodern day.
		Asteroids Ida and Dactyl, Comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Halley, representative meteorites.
	www.sitetracer.com /search/dactyl (229 words)

	Double dactyl . Cleopatra VII of Egypt . Mark Antony . Microbiology
		A dactyl poetry dactyl is a poetry poetic foot of the form ON-off-off.
		Like a limerick poetry limerick, it has a rigid structure and is usually humorous, but the double dactyl is considerably more rigid and difficult to write.
		There is also a requirement for at least one line of the second stanza to be entirely one double dactyl word, for example " va -le-dic- tor -i-an".
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Double_dactyl (419 words)

	Double-Dactyl
		The poem consists of one sentence containing forty-four syllables that are distributed over eight lines and fall into two four-line stanzas.
		The first three lines of each stanza are dactylic dimeter; the last one is a choriamb.
		The two stanzas end with a masculine rhyme on the last syllable of the choriamb.
	lonestar.texas.net /~robison/dactyls.html (122 words)

	Dactyl (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In quantitative verse, such as Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables.
		Also the word 'Strawberry' is, in itself, a dactyl.) In accentual verse, such as English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
		The first five feet of the line are dactyls; the sixth a trochee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dactyl_(poetry) (240 words)

	Glossary poetic terms D
		A foot consisting of three syllables where the first is long or stressed and the second two are short or unstressed e.g.
		'Higgledy-piggledy' and the fourth is a dactyl and a macron.
		Double or disyllabic rhymes occur when the final two syllables of different words chime together - as in 'spender' and 'slender'.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /glossary_poetic_terms_d.htm (639 words)

	Dactyl___dactyl - SiteTracer.com
		I'd never heard of the double dactyl form before I saw your...
		Solving for Dactyl's Orbit and Ida's Density; Ida and Dactyl.
		Dactyl definition, words related to dactyl, proper usage and pronunciation of the word dactyl from...
	www.sitetracer.com /search/Dactyl___dactyl (316 words)

	McWhirtle
		McWhirtle A McWhirtle is a light verse form similar to a double dactyl, invented in 1989 by...
		A McWhirtle is a light verse form similar to a double dactyl, invented in 1989 by American poet Bruce...
		The McWhirtle, a cousin of the double dactyl, was invented in 1989 by Bruce Newling.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/McWhirtle (255 words)

	AkuAku: double dactyl
		It occured to me that "moronic gibberish" was a double dactyl.
		I just realized Osama Bin Laden is almost double dactylic (it's On off off off ON off), perhaps enough to give him similar treatment when I get the chance...
		True (I assume you're talking about moronic), but colloquially it's often pronounced in a dactylic fashion (especially when ranting), which is good enough for me. Double Dactyls are more like limericks than high art, after all.
	www.danger-island.com /~dav/writeon2/archives/000294.shtml (651 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Light Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Clerihew (or clerihew) is a very specific kind of humorous verse, typically with the following properties: The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of a well-known persons name The verse is humorous and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; but it...
		An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement.
		Jump to: navigation, search Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, normally composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Light-Poetry (986 words)

	Definition of dactyl
		dactyl]], an element of [[meter (poetry)meter]] in [[po...
		3: '''243 (1) Dactyl''', is a tiny [[asteroid]] (diameter 1.4 km) that...
		The Dactyls were ancient smiths and healing magicians.
	www.wordiq.com /search/dactyl.html (775 words)

	Double Dactyl Duel - Common Ascent
		A dactyl is a poetic foot with a triplet stress pattern: one-two-three.
		A double dactyl, then, is one dactyl followed immediately by another.
		The last line of each stanza is a single dactyl followed by a single beat: one-two-three-one.
	www.forum.commonascent.org /showthread.php?t=116 (268 words)

	Double Dactyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Wordcarvers: Anapest, Dactyl
		The dactyl, on the other hand, is an "extended trochee", and as a matter of fact most people find it harder to write in trochaic than they do in iambs.
		As you realize, your dactylic line is problematical, but trust me: there's hardly anyone visiting this forum that can spontaneously pen a line of dactylic tetrameter, and I certainly ain't one of them.
		Dactyls were very popular with the ancient Greeks, because the meter was very natural to their spoken language, just as iambs are very natural in English.
	www.eosdev.com /cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=3&post=6549 (2174 words)

	dactyl
		A dactyl is a stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed syllables.
		The first line is two dactyls that are nonsense words and rhyme with each other – like higgledy piggeldy or hickory dickory or whatever works for your person
		I know that sounds pretty confusing, but the only way to get a handle on this form is to see it in action, so here are a few – read them and then go back and see if the directions make any more sense.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /gryphonsmith/fileg/verse/Dactyl.html (341 words)

	Light Showers by Kathryn Lindskoog: The Old Recycling Controversy
		* The double dactyl is a rigorous form of playful verse in which most of the eight lines are composed of two dactyls (the meter in "higgledy piggledy").
		One of the lines in the second quatrain must be composed of a single word.
		I observed those requirements in this experiment; but I violated a couple of others, so this is not a genuine double dactyl.
	www.lindentree.org /lsrecycl.html (74 words)

	Club Troppo » Double Dactyls
		The first three lines of each quatrain are double dactyls.
		A dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short ones.
		The cognoscenti of the New Statesman were also required to make the second line of the second stanza a single word double dactyl.
	www.clubtroppo.com.au /2006/04/08/double-dactyls-2 (452 words)

	Double dactyl Details, Meaning Double dactyl Article and Explanation Guide
		Double dactyl Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		Like a limerick, it has a rigid structure and is usually humorous.
		A similar verse form called a McWhirtle was invented in 1989 by American poet Bruce Newling.
	www.e-paranoids.com /d/do/double_dactyl.html (210 words)

	little.red.boat: Comment on It sort of works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		My dad thought my Sex and the City double dactyls were crap, cos he was pronouncing Cattrall with the emphasis on cat.
		But I was still right in the context of the double dactyl.
		Anyway, talking to my dad reminded me of the double dactyls my mum wrote for my son Felix, who really did have a laugh just like a pterodactyl.
	www.meish.org /cgi-sys/cgiwrap/megp/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=13050 (554 words)

	Literary Terms and Definitions D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some common examples include the assumption that young love is fickle, that society is bleak or dangerous for survivors of warfare, that guilt is inescapable, that following one's heart (or head) leads to happiness (or heartbreak), and so on.
		Double negatives were perfectly acceptable in English up until the Enlightenment.
		DOUBLE RHYME: A rhyme that involves two syllables rather than one.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/lit_terms_D.html (7321 words)

	Amazon.com: Jiggery Pokery: Books: Anthony Hecht,John Hollander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hecht is the originator of the prose form known as the double dactyl.
		The first line must be a double dactylic nonsense line like "Higgledy-piggledy" or "Jiggery Pokery." The second line must be a double dactylic name and somewhere in the poem, preferably in the antepenultimate (second line of the second quatrain) there must be one double dactylic line which is one word long.
		The authors seem to believe that rule number 7 makes the form finite (which is perhaps why the book is out of print), that the limited number of double dactyl words in the English language will be consumed and ultimately doom the form to oblivion.
	www.amazon.com /Jiggery-Pokery-Anthony-Hecht/dp/0689706545 (1248 words)

	Dactyl
		In quantitative verse, such as Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables.
		In accentual verse, such as English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
		This is the / forest prim- / eval.
	www.clipart.teleactivities.com /poetry/dactyl.html (155 words)

	To villanelle and back \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		What the reader or listener wants to know is how the poet is going to come up with the rhymes for Fiji - we do not go to this text for information about Gauguin or his art, or indeed for a witty observation about Gauguin, since the poem isn't about him.
		The double dactyl, with its fascinating rule that the second part should contain a line consisting of one double-dactyl word, is another form that forbids a straight face:
		Auden thought the triolet was too trivial a form to bother with, as most examples amply prove.
	books.guardian.co.uk /fentonserial/story/0,12098,804704,00.html (687 words)

	Double-dactyls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A dactyl is three syllables with the emphasis on the first syllable.
		A double dactyl is two of those together (BUM-bum-bum BUM-bum-bum).
		There are some words out there that are double dactyls (invisibility, extracurricular, verisimilitude, for example).
	lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net /poetry/haiku/dactyl.html (271 words)

	Chatological Humor* (Updated 8.11.06)
		A double dactyl is two quatrains containing a single rhyme, that being the final sound of each quatrain.
		A few readers sent me their own efforts at double dactyls, most of which were -- and I say this with all appropriate respect -- godawful.
		Double Dact, Il: My introduction to double dactyls came by way of Esquire magazine way back in the sixties, when it was edited by Harold T.P. Hayes.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/08/01/DI2006080100633_pf.html (10870 words)

	Asteroids with satellites
		Additionally, the inner planets and the Moon show a number of double craters, apparently formed by the near-simultaneous impact of two objects.
		The only system yet examined close up is (243) Ida and Dactyl; Galileo imagery shows a very irregular shape for Ida, implying that it is not a simple rubble pile.
		Double Asteroids and Minor Satellites, RASNZ Occultation Section (2005).
	www.johnstonsarchive.net /astro/asteroidmoons.html (1222 words)

	Morphing Snavely -- A Study in Verse Forms
		Well, a foot consists of a group of syllables, one of which is accented.
		A dactyl is a foot (see under sonnet, above) which consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables -- DUM dee dee.
		A Double Dactyl is a rhyming poem with two 4-line stanzas, most of which consist of two dactylic feet.
	tenderbytes.net /rhymeworld/feeder/teacher/snavely.htm (732 words)

	bellairsia : index
		The second line of the second stanza is required to be a single six-syllable word in the dactylic meter.
		I believe John was introduced to the form by a 1965 article in Esquire Magazine on double dactyls.
		Esquire at the time was a much more handsome and prestigious magazine than it is today, and it called composing double dactyls an ideal way to waste time.
	www.bellairsia.com /a/a_athanasius.html (485 words)

	a fool in the forest: Double Dactyls
		Perhaps you have been curious as to why I have posted no new double dactyls since before the turn of the year.
		I have been caught dead to rights in the comments section, where it is pointed out that the previous draft of this snippet of verse violates the convention that a double dactyl should invoke the name of a person, real or fictional.
		The topical double dactyls march on, in tribute to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
	declarationsandexclusions.typepad.com /foolblog/double_dactyls/index.html (4461 words)

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