Alankar(Decor)-232

Bad Luck(Dixdeux) Dixdeux, French for ten-two, is illustrated by Anthony Fusco in Caulkins' Handbook on Haiku and Other Form Poems,1970.It appears to have developed as an alternative to the Haiku. The Dixdeux is: written in any number of tercets. When written in more than one tercet, L3 becomes a refrain. syllabic, with 10-10-2 syllables per line. is unrhymed. titled, unlike the haiku. Bad Luck A set mouse-trap waits in silence to hunt Up and down running the pestering mouse.. - - - - - - - - - Alas! ! Morning mistress runs to the trap to check A hole in that wooden trap laughs at her - - - - - - - - - Alas! !