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Unread 08-02-2017, 05:57 AM
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I can’t write light verse. It’s strange because IRL people say I have a good sense of humor -- it just doesn’t come out in writing. I admire you who can write it.

James Fenton cites this double dactyl in his Introduction to English Poetry, and I’ve always remembered it because it’s so witty (like Wendy Cope’s poem on giving up smoking):


Higgledy piggledy
Vladimir Nabokov—
Wait! Hasn’t somebody
Made a mistake?

Out of such errors, Vla-
dimir Nabokov would
Sesquipedalian
Paragraphs make.

(from a New Statesman competition)

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