double dactyl
nounEtymology Coined by poets Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal; compound of double + dactyl.
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A short, usually humorous poem with eight lines in dactylic meter; a higgledy-piggledy.
- Higgledy-piggledies are more sophisticated than clerihews: they comprise double dactyls and rhymes and aren't always biographical.1980, Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, page 123:
- Synonyms
- higgledy-piggledy