<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425968" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sins of Commission Higgledy-Piggledy José Barroso</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Higgledy-piggledy <br>José Barroso so <br>stuffy starch collarly <br>stiff upper lip, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">said 'for the life of me <br>no proto Irano <br>plutonium energy <br>setting up ship! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>robi03_1936_robi03_0000 robi03_1936_DACTYL_0000</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Metrical Variation in the Double Dactyl Stanza<br>http: //www.barefootmuse.com/archives/issue7/hodge.htm< /a></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The double dactyl stanza, created in the 1960s by Paul Pascal and Anthony Hecht,1 required that the first line be nonsense syllables [e.g. 'Higgledy-piggledy, ' hence the form's alternative name], that the second be a proper name [Emily Dickinson, Theodore Roosevelt, etc.], that one line, usually the sixth, consist of a single didactylic word, and that the catalectic (shortened) fourth and eighth lines rhyme. Such verses were discrete comments on the person named. Adapting the stanza to longer narratives in rendering Shakespeare and nursery rhymes and tales into dactyls, can be fun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Richard III - Off with his Head! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Richard III (in which 'Off with his head! ' serves as a refrain) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tewksbury witnessed his<br>slaughter of Edward, whose<br>widow thereafter he <br>took to his bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anyone faulting such<br>insensitivity<br>should have known better; 'twas<br>off with his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had his brother and<br>then his two nephews all<br>killed in the Tower, or<br>so it is said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hastings and Stanley, who <br>ideologically <br>balked at his crowning, heard <br>'Off with his head! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425968" data-title="Sins of Commission Higgledy-Piggledy José Barroso de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Higgledy-piggledy José Barroso so stuffy starch collarly stiff upper lip, said 'for the life of me no proto Irano plutonium energy setting up ship! ' robi03_1936_robi03_0000 robi03_1936_DACTYL_0000 Metrical Variation in the Double Dac..."></div> </div> </div>

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