double dactyls

double dactyls

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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