Double dactyls: Ki Teitzei

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:

  1. There must be eight lines.
  2. Lines 1-3 and 5-7 must each consist of a pair of dactyls (that is, dum-der-der dum-der-der).
  3. Lines 4 and 8 must be choriambs (that is, dum-der-der-dum).
  4. Lines 4 and 8 must rhyme.
  5. Line 1 must be nonsense.
  6. Line 2 must be the subject of the poem, ideally a name that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘Laurence Olivier’).
  7. 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.

1 comment

  1. 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.

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