Double dactyls !

I never have been a poetry person, but just read this interesting poem, called a Double dactyl, I got as part of the AWAD weekly issue:

The subject was the word maudlin (Def: 1. Overly sentimental. 2. Foolishly sentimental because of drunkenness - origin from Mary Magdalene).

email quote:

I'm reminded of poet James Merrill's decidedly unmaudlin double dactyl on the subject:

Higgledy piggledy
Mary of Magdala
Said to the Dolorous
Mother of God:

"Parthenogenesis
Ought to be left to the
Simple amoeba or
Gasteropod."

Double dactyls, as some of your readers may know, are a light verse form with very strict formal rules. DDs are quite difficult to write, but delightful when wittily conceived and carefully constructed.

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One of the rules is to have the last line of first para rhyme with the last line of the second para! Truly awesome I think, given that it usually hard to make first line rhyme with the second :-)