Explore: Double Dactyls

similar to a double dactyl, invented in 1989 by American poet Bruce Newling. McWhirtles share essentially the same form as double dactyls, but without

the line are dactyls; the sixth a trochee. Stephen Fry quotes Robert Browning's poem "The Lost Leader" as an example of the use of dactylic metre to great

Dactylic metre is any meter primarily composed of dactyls (long-short-short, or stressed-unstressed-unstressed). It may refer to: Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic

written in epic style suiting its subject. The metre is glyconic with double dactylic expansion. The poem was preserved on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1232, a fragment

— ∪ ∪ | — ∪ ∪ | — — Homer's hexameters contain a higher proportion of dactyls than later hexameter poetry[citation needed]. They are also characterized

humorous folk song Clerihew – Whimsical, four-line biographical poem Double dactyl – Fixed verse form Lecherous Limericks – Book of limericks by Isaac

as part of its Style Invitational Poetry portal Alla barnen Clerihew Double dactyl Epigram Limerick McWhirtle Michael Braude Award for Light Verse Nonsense

with an iamb) Hexasyllable: metrical line consisting of 6 syllables. Double dactyl Octosyllable: metrical line consisting of 8 syllables. Decasyllable:

according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe. In Greek it was called πέλεκυς (pélekys). The plural of labrys

poems The Quest of the Gole (1966) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1967) with Anthony Hecht Types of Shape (1969, 1991) poems Images of