The double dactyl is a verse form invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal in 1951. Like the limerick, the double dactyl has a fixed structure, is usually...
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A dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/; Greek: δάκτυλος, dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a...
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tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Double dactyl This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dactylic metre. If an...
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Couplet: AA, but usually occurs as AA BB CC DD ... Décima: ABBAACCDDC Double dactyl: XXXA XXXA Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme): ABBA Englyn: complex...
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humorous folk song Clerihew – Whimsical, four-line biographical poem Double dactyl – Fixed verse form Lecherous Limericks – Book of limericks by Isaac...
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The double amphibrach is a variation of the double dactyl, similar to the McWhirtle but with stricter formal requirements. Meter and lineation are consistently...
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competitions as part of its Style Invitational Alla barnen Clerihew Double dactyl Epigram Limerick McWhirtle Michael Braude Award for Light Verse Nonsense...
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with an iamb) Hexasyllable: metrical line consisting of 6 syllables. Double dactyl Octosyllable: metrical line consisting of 8 syllables. Decasyllable:...
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had an effect Greater than I could reasonably expect. Balliol rhyme Double dactyl Light verse Bentley, E. Clerihew (1905). Biography for Beginners....
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conventions. Common forms include the limerick, the clerihew, and the double dactyl. While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel, or thought of...
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Time Higgledy-Piggledy, a Joe Weber and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. burlesque double dactyl, a verse form invented by Anthony Hecht, and Paul Pascal in 1951. This...
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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...
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syllables in length. The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapaest. The foot might be compared to a bar, or a beat divided into...
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Dactyl Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit arts organization in New York City founded by New York-based artist Neil Grayson and novelist/philosopher...
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in Amsterdam. He wrote his own obituary, in the form of a double dactyl poem. A new double CD, Drs. P Retrouvé, was released in November 2016, featuring...
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there was a separate catalog of original photos by Waplington called Double Dactyl (2008). Waplington worked on a major book project with the fashion designer...
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Binary asteroid (redirect from Double asteroid)
of binary main-belt comet 2006 VW139 (288P) Artist's impression of the double asteroid 90 Antiope Minor-planet moon § List of minor planets with moons...
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Labrys (redirect from Double axe)
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...
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Sapphic stanzas; for book 2, glyconics with double dactylic expansion in distichs; for book 3, glyconics with double choriambic expansion in distichs. x x -...
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In the dactylic hexameters of Classical Latin and Classical Greek, for example, each of the six feet making up the line was either a dactyl (long-short-short)...
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Latin prosody (section Dactylic meters)
distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used dactylic hexameters for both light...
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natural structures, including the cosmoid scale of the coelacanth, and the dactyl club of the mantis shrimp and many other stomatopods. In physics, these...
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Trochaic meter is sometimes seen among the works of William Shakespeare: Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Perhaps owing to its...
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contemporary art books, for example several works by Nick Waplington including Double Dactyl (2008), Paul Fryer and Damien Hirst's: Don’t Be So… (2002) and Laureana...
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Greek prosody (section Dactylic)
pattern | – u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | – – | (the so-called dactylic hexameter, where – represents a long syllable, and u a short one.) It would...
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Aeolic verse (redirect from Dactylic expansion)
to: dactylic expansion (some number of dactyls preceding the choriamb, or "prolongation" of the pattern that alternates long elements with double-short...
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in Saxony with alternate supports in the "dactyl" arrangement (one pier-two columns in repetition). Dactyl pattern was not new to Saxony in the 11th century...
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Visions from the Ramble (1965) poems Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1967) with Anthony Hecht Types of Shape (1969, 1991) poems Images of...
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ground-based telescope. Previously, the only known moon of an asteroid was Dactyl, discovered by the Galileo space probe, around 243 Ida. Petit-Prince is...
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