Double Dactyl

As you may have figured out by now, I’m starting off the poetry side of this blog with some lighter stuff (although if you look closely at some of my light verse, there’s a serious edge to it). We’ll get more serious as time goes on, although the light stuff will never entirely disappear.

Today’s example is a double dactyl, a form invented in the 1960’s. A dactyl is a poetic foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables; a double dactyl is two such feet. The do...