Anthony Hecht - Double Dactyl

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.