Unusual Words and Their Uses

[milo]

double dactyl is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl

well done. Now we need someone to do a practice thread.

I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?

Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .

Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.

Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?

Ah, Dum-da-da, Dum-da-da. 'Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line consisting of just a choriamb ( ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ).'

Doesn't Octasyllabically have one too many syllables?
I'm lost...

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No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally