Double Dactyl

Hands up anyone who has heard of Double Dactyls. Mine isn’t. I was hoping it was something to do with prehistoric flying reptiles. But no, apparently it is a form of comedic verse.

Before settling on DDs I had a look at how many different forms of verse there are and for this I am more than happy to give credit to Robert Lee Brewer, from the Writer’s Digest in 2021. He found 168 poetic forms and gives examples of everyone. Sometimes making them up himself. An amazing job.
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