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Double dactyls (fwd)
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From: John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu
No discussion of this important topic is complete without mention of
the verses by Bernard Friedman that appeared in the *New York Times
Book Review* for February 26, 1984, on page 38:
Jiggery-Pokery
Doesn't necessitate
Dactylic names for its
Metrical zest.
Names that are amphibrachs
Also will serve, and "Vla-
dimir Nabokov" need
Not be mis-stressed.
John Lavagnino
Women Writers Project, Brown University
No discussion of this important topic is complete without mention of
the verses by Bernard Friedman that appeared in the *New York Times
Book Review* for February 26, 1984, on page 38:
Jiggery-Pokery
Doesn't necessitate
Dactylic names for its
Metrical zest.
Names that are amphibrachs
Also will serve, and "Vla-
dimir Nabokov" need
Not be mis-stressed.
John Lavagnino
Women Writers Project, Brown University