Playing with Verse Forms

Jiggery-Pokery!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Decided to whip out a sonnet or two.
The critics agreed that
His rhymes were impeccable,
Sadly, they added:
“The metre won’t do.”

Much of the satisfaction that I get from writing light verse comes from taking an established verse form and playing with it. For example, the double dactyl above replaces the single doubly-dactylic word (See here and here .) that usually constitutes the antepenultimate line of the verse with a doubly-dactylic phrase “His rhyme...