The thread for the Letter B is here.
The thread for the Letter C is here.
This thread contains the following:
Double-dactyl - pg. 1
Diminishing verse - pg. 1
Echo verse - pg. 1
As before, everyone is welcome to try either the current form or to give any past form a whirl. Many thanks are given to Mr. Lewis Turco and his work The Book of Forms.
The letter D began in the book with a number of forms that we'll be passing over, as most of them were categories rather than forms (i.e. 'debate' and 'dirge') or very specific (i.e. 'dithyramb' - a frenzied choric song in honor of revelry and wine) - hence the first form for our use here is one some of us have seen before, but the world cannot have too many Double-dactyls
According to Turco, '(A Double-Dactyl) is a poem made up of two quatrains rhyming abcd efgd. Lines 1-3 of each stanza are dactylic dimeter lines; the last line of each stanza is composed of an iamb and a trochee. The first line of the first stanza is always 'Higgledy-piggledy'; the second line is a name. THe second line of the second stanza is a double dactyl modifier. Only the last lines of each stanza are required to rhyme, though there may be other rhymes of various kinds as well."
Another way of saying this I've taken from our own early attempts at these in the waaay back years of this community:
A dactyl is three syllables with the emphasis on the first syllable. A double dactyl is two of those together (BUM-bum-bum BUM-bum-bum). There are some words out there that are double dactyls (invisibility, extracurricular, verisimilitude, for example).
A double dactyl poem has eight lines.
Lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are all six syllables with the emphasis on the 1st and 4th syllables.
Lines 4 and 8 are both four syllables -- a dactyl plus an extra (BUM-bum-bum BUM!) and these lines rhyme.
Some specifications about what goes in each line:
*Line 1 is nonsense -- higgledy piggledy, or whatever you feel like making up and suits the pattern.
*Line 2 is a name or proper title -- Boromir Steward's Son
*Line 3 is whatever you want (six syllables)
*Line 4 is whatever you want (four syllables)
*Lines 5, 6, and 7 can be whatever you want, but ONE of them has to be one word that's a double dactyl.
*Line 8 is whatever you want, but generally has a kind of twist to it, like a limerick's ending. Line 8 also rhymes with line 4.
Are we confused yet?
A couple of my own (you don't have to have a LOTR theme):
The Ring
Grippery, Frippery.
One Ring to rule them all
Anthropomorphical
Small golden knot.
Where would we be sans its
Megalomaniacal
Circumlocutional
Part of the plot?
Samwise
Frying-pan, frying-pan.
Samwise the Gardener
Gastrointestinal
Cook of the team.
Thus Gollum found his own
Unceremonious
Duplicate leverets
Served up with steam.
(My collection thus far can be read over here at the Scrapbook.)
Your turn!
Well done, sir, I salute thee in amusement 
Very nicely done. 