A double dactyl is a comic verse form made up of two quatrains, each line being made up of two dactyls except the fourth and eighth which are choriambs (and must rhyme with each other). The first line is generally a repetitious bit of nonsense, and the second line is someone's name.
I won't invent an example here because they're rather hard to construct ;-)
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Date: Friday, 24 February 2006 05:38 pm (UTC)I won't invent an example here because they're rather hard to construct ;-)