simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote 2011-06-17 08:33 am (UTC)

As [livejournal.com profile] writinghawk implies, it's not intended to pastiche any specific poem; it's just something I dreamed up myself in a relatively standard (if not usually serious) form.

If you thought it was based on something in particular, I'm interested to know what you might have had in mind. The highest-profile double dactyl I know of myself (in that it's the only one I'd encountered before I found whole websites of the things on the Internet) is the one in Gaiman's Stardust, sung to Tristran by fairies:
Hankety-pankety
Boy in a blanket, he's
Off on a goose-chase to
Look for a star

Incontrovertibly
Journeys through Faërie
Strip off the blanket to
See who you are.

But that doesn't sound particularly like mine...

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