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...

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...

The double amphibrach is a variation of the double dactyl, similar to the McWhirtle but with stricter formal requirements. Meter and lineation are consistently...

tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Double dactyl This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dactylic metre. If an...

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

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

Couplet: AA, but usually occurs as AA BB CC DD ... Décima: ABBAACCDDC Double dactyl: XXXA XXXA Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme): ABBA Englyn: complex...

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

had an effect Greater than I could reasonably expect. Balliol rhyme Double dactyl Light verse Bentley, E. Clerihew (1905). Biography for Beginners....

conventions. Common forms include the limerick, the clerihew, and the double dactyl. While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel, or thought of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

Sapphic stanzas; for book 2, glyconics with double dactylic expansion in distichs; for book 3, glyconics with double choriambic expansion in distichs. x x -...

distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used dactylic hexameters for both light...

natural structures, including the cosmoid scale of the coelacanth, and the dactyl club of the mantis shrimp and many other stomatopods. In physics, these...

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...

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...

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...

to: dactylic expansion (some number of dactyls preceding the choriamb, or "prolongation" of the pattern that alternates long elements with double-short...

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...

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...

to achieve superhuman competence in Dota 2 matches. Developed in 2018, Dactyl uses machine learning to train a Shadow Hand, a human-like robot hand, to...

In this case, each iamb is underscored with a flap step. Anapaest Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion...