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EDNOTE. Lovers of the double dactyl will find a bit about the use of Nabokov's name in the NABOKV-L Archive.
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FROM James Fenton's "An Introduction to English Poetry"
The double dactyl, with its fascinating rule that the second part should contain a line consisting of one double-dactyl word, is another form that forbids a straight face:
Higgledy piggledy
Vladimir Nabokov -
Wait! Hasn't somebody
Made a mistake?
Out of such errors, Vla-
dimir Nabokov would
Sesquipedelian
Paragraphs make.
(New Statesman competition)
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FROM James Fenton's "An Introduction to English Poetry"
The double dactyl, with its fascinating rule that the second part should contain a line consisting of one double-dactyl word, is another form that forbids a straight face:
Higgledy piggledy
Vladimir Nabokov -
Wait! Hasn't somebody
Made a mistake?
Out of such errors, Vla-
dimir Nabokov would
Sesquipedelian
Paragraphs make.
(New Statesman competition)