Dodgily, dodgily
Beautiful prisoners:
Wives who are miserably
Captured in war.Yielding to masculine
Insatiability,
Much of this breaks inter-
National law.
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.

Not up to your standards, but:
Drizzly, grizzly.
Downpour of oddities.
Raining: not cats and dogs
But frogs and stuff.
Darkness descends on us:
Crepuscularity.
Just so it never ends
Don’t take the huff.