DOUBLE DACTYLS

also called higgledy-piggledy a light-verse form consisting of eight lines of two dactyls each, arranged in two stanzas. The first line of the poem must be a jingle, often Higgledy-piggledy or Jiggery-pokery; the second line must be a name; the last lines of each stanza are truncated and they should rhyme; and one line in the second stanza must consist of a single word. The following example by R. McHenry illustrates the form: Higgledy-piggledy Emily Dickinson Amherst had nothing more Noble than she. 'Sconced in her house with the Curtains pulled back just so: Monochromatically Serving up tea.