SOME DOUBLE DACTYLS.

SOME DOUBLE DACTYLS. Here are some double dactyls from this site.

Double-Dactyl

Long-short-short, long-short-short
Dactyls in dimeter,
Verse form with choriambs
(Masculine rhyme):
One sentence (two stanzas)
Hexasyllabically
Challenges poets who
Don’t have the time.

Anna Karenina

Higgelvich Piggelvich
Anna Karenina
Russian romanticist
cracked under strain:
impetuosity
caused her to tragically,
melodramatically
catch the next train. (games mag.)

Alexander The Great

Higgeldy Piggeldy
Philip of Macedon
cursed Alexander, his
famous papoose,
“Why should I try to be
philoprogenitive?
everyone thinks that his
father was Zeus!” — Keith H. Peterson

Here are some from this site, which has a large number of double dactyls on classical themes:

Marc ‘N’ Cleo

Wiggledy-Jiggledy
Marcus Antonius,
Smitten by beautiful
Queen of the Nile,
Married her, died for her,
Megamaniacal
Victim of Actium/
Feminine guile.

Kalendae Ianuariae

Higgledy-Piggledy
Janus Patulcius,
God of beginnings and
Also of gates,
Figures in calendars,
Primopositional,
Foremost in naming the
Months in our dates.

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