The double-dactyl for requires a name, and a single word, each of which will fill a six-syllable line with the proper rhythm.

And there, it seems to me, lies the root of what makes them so hard to write. If you writes them regularly, lists of appropriate names and words will float about in one's head and, periodically, a name and word will pair up appropriately -- and presto, you've written a double-dactyl. But if you come to the form brand new you must find completely from scratch a word which fit together.

But our group mind can address that problem! Here's a list of names that seem to fit the pattern. Feel free to add to this list, or take from it.

Hans Christian Andersen
Titus Andronicus
Marcus Aurelius
Micahel Barishnakov
_________ Borgia
Arthur of Camelot (or Merlin)
William the Conqueror (reserved for our Brits )
Niko Copernicus
Quintus the Cunctator
Damon and Pythias
Stoker's Count Dracula
Claude William Dukenfield (legal name of W.C. Fields)
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
'Lizabeth Regina
Young Dr. Frankenstein
Diane von Furstenburg
Archangel Gabriel
Raisa Gorbachev
Averill Harriman (US diplomat)
Walter Karl Heisenberg
Baron von Hindenburg
Julio Iglesias
Pope John the XXIII
Herbert von Karajan
Senator Kennedy
Stanley and Livingston (inventor of the microscope)
Antointe Lavoisier
Anton von Leeuwenhoek
Richard the Lionheart
Phillip of Macedon
Matthew Mark Luke and John
Pontius Maximus
_________ Medici
Bernard Montgomery (Field Marshall)
Mother Superior
Ancient Odysseus
Liam O'Flaherty
C. Northcote Parkinson
Edward G. Robinson
Elliot Richardson (high US official in the Watergate affair)
Rogers and Hammerstein
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Adlai E. Stevenson (US politician)
Robert L. Stevenson
Ivan the Terrible
Baron von Zeppelin (do I have this right?)
Zeno of Elea (as in Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the tortoise)

Pinafore minafore
Gilbert and Sullivan
Shocked at their absence
From Ubique's list

Dreamed up this quick reply
Oper-rhetorically
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