Do Pterodactyls Write In Dactyls? Poem by Michael Shepherd

Do Pterodactyls Write In Dactyls?

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Dactyls – according to encyclopaedic wise men –
though the staple of classical Grecian and Latinate tread,
are now comical – ‘only used humorously’… And yet, read
at a funeral pace, in solemnity, toll out the dead…


(with acknowledgements to M.G. and the Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry…)

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Robert Howard 30 July 2006

Perhaps Pterodactyls did write write in dactlyls and some literary critic shamed them into extinction.

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