Woollery-pullery,
Passover sacrifice:
Guiding the Angel of
Death to-and-fro.Israelite households saved
Ovinicidally;*
Pharaoh, a broken man,
Let the slaves go.
*a common adverb meaning through-the-death-of-a-sheep; come on, you ought to have a basic grasp of Latin if you’re reading my blog
You can play too by posting in the comments! A reminder of the rules of the “dismally difficult” double dactyl:
- There must be eight lines.
- Lines 1-3 and 5-7 must each consist of a pair of dactyls (that is, dum-der-der dum-der-der).
- Lines 4 and 8 must be choriambs (that is, dum-der-der-dum).
- Lines 4 and 8 must rhyme.
- Line 1 must be nonsense.
- Line 2 must be the subject of the poem, ideally a name that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘Laurence Olivier’).
- Line 6 must be a single word that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘cardiovascular’).
And my own past entries can be found here.
