26 January 2017

double dactyls.

Wikipedia.

fig 1: King John.

Higgledy-piggledy
young Philip Faulconbridge,
son of his father he
wasn't at all—
learning his getting was
extracurricular
gave Phil a reason at
last to stand tall.

fig 2: Doctor Faustus.

Higgledy-piggledy
Faustus of Wittenberg
autodidactically
summoned from Hell
one whom the adjective
Mephistophelian
fit like a glove (i.e.
really quite well).

fig 3: Le petit prince.

Higgledy-piggledy
A. Saint-Exupéry,
flyer of planes and a
writer of books,
once drew a picture whose
idiosyncrasies
made it look hat-like and
earned him odd looks.

fig 4: Ninety-Five Theses

Higgledy-piggledy
Martin of Wittenberg
wrote out some theses and
stuck them on high:
reading this treatise most
multisyllabical,
many good Germans bid
Rome a good-bye.

5 comments:

  1. Higgeldy piggeldy
    Hamlet of Wittenberg
    acted too antic
    and Oedipally sighed
    somehow or other most
    anticlimacticly
    killed poor Polonius,
    then they all died.


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    1. Higgledy-piggledy,
      Gertrude at Elsinore
      (husband's a murderer,
      so is her son)
      drinks up her poison quite
      dipsomaniacally:
      being a queen really
      wasn't much fun.

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    2. Higgeldy-piggeldy
      Frankenstein -- Wittenburg,
      (Clearly the place where adventures begin)
      Learned from Agrippa
      homunculus-forming
      then cast off his monster,
      for being no kin.

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    3. I'm never going to hear mention of anyone being at Wittenberg naturally again!

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    4. It does scan very usefully, doesn't it!

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