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Default Speccie Double Dactyl

I've just been trying to write a piece on these competitions. I said there were three winners who outpaced all the rest. nd here they are. Bazza, Bill Greenwell and Chris O'Carroll. Well done chaps, we always knew you had it in you. I got an hon mensh, as you se. There were two of us stood outside the door for being rude.

The new competition is a cinch. If I don't win something I'll eat my hat. I've done loads of these. But so have you, I expect. On! On!

No. 2737: Double dactyl
You are invited to submit a double dactyl, i.e., a poem of two quatrains, of which the last line of the first rhymes with the last line of the second. All the lines except the rhyming ones, which are truncated, are composed of two dactylic feet. The first line of the first stanza is a double dactylic nonsense line (e.g., higgledy-piggledy/jiggery-pokery). The second must be a double dactylic name. At least one line of the second stanza (ideally the antepenultimate one) must be one double dactylic line that is one word long, e.g., ‘va-le-dic-tor-i-an’. Please email entries, if possible, to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 29 February.
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