And I believe that Hecht also required as many foreign languages as possible to appear in the piece, thereby paying due reverence to the supremacy of macaronic verse. He played a blinder - and By Goliard, he won! Double Dactyl indeed!
Jiggery Pokery!
Hechtus Antonius
Made a ridiculous
Fistful of rules
Raising two fingers to
Metrical specialists -
Ultraconventional
Farcical fools!
And Hey! That's us, folks! The words Petard and Hoist come to mind...
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