Double Dactyl
Hecht is also notably one of the inventors of the double dactyl, a form of light verse. In his weekly on-line chat on January 22, 2008, Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post wrote a double dactyl to honor Hecht:
- Higgledy Piggledy
- Anthony Hecht, who could
- Write about death in words
- Epic yet warm,
- Went to his own with some
- Counterintuitive
- Logic; his legacy's
- This stupid form.
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Famous quotes containing the word double:
“You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen.
Newts and blindworms, do no wrong,
Come not near our Fairy Queen.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)