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"Hairenstein: "It's Alive!" Double Dactyl Form"



Uppity-Monsterly
Miss Poet’s Hairenstein
Dubbed a monster, it's
her bad hair day,

Set it a-stumbling, and
Sublime atrocity
Idiosyncritity
Big hair, up, each way

Author notes


Line 1: The first line must be a double-dactyl hyphenated nonsense word, such as “Higgledy-piggledy,” "Pickety-pockety," or “Rockety-crockety.”

Line 2: The second line must be a double-dactyl name, such as “President Washington,” “Ralph Waldo Emerson,” or “Romeo Montague.”

Line 3: Dactyllic dimeter—six syllables with a distinct DA-dum-dum DA-dum-dum rhythm.

Line 4: One trochee and one iamb—four syllables with a distinct DA-dum-dum-DA rhythm. This line must rhyme perfectly with line 8.

Line 5: Dactyllic dimeter

Line 6: Dactyllic dimeter

Line 7: A SINGLE double-dactyl word, such as “uncomplimentary,” “heterosexual,” “anticlimactical,” “parthenogenesis,” or any other—the odder the better.

Line 8: Line 4: One trochee and one iamb. This line must rhyme perfectly with line 4.

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  • x-Black-Butterfly-x gold member
    September 21, 2007

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    a beautiful write with depth and imagery and i really loved it
    well done hun keep writing and ill talk to you soon