A Just Plain Limeric Lesson

rogersgeorge on June 18th, 2023

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Another form I like, called the double dactyl, appears somewhere in this blog, but I can’t find it. I might have to do a repeat. Here’s an official definition: The double dactyl consists of two quatrains, each with three double–dactyl lines followed by a shorter dactyl-spondee pair. The two spondees rhyme.

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