| 词条 | double dactyls |
| 释义 | double dactyls literature also called higgledy-piggledy a light-verse form consisting of eight lines of two dactyls each, arranged in two stanzas (stanza). The first line of the poem must be a jingle, often “Higgledy-piggledy” or “Jiggery-pokery”; the second line must be a name; the last lines of each stanza are truncated and they should rhyme; and one line in the second stanza must consist of a single word. The following example by R. McHenry illustrates the form: Higgledy-piggledy Emily Dickinson Amherst had nothing more Noble than she. 'Sconced in her house with the Curtains pulled back just so: Monochromatically Serving up tea. |
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