Focus on Form: Lip-Synch a Limerick

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Focus on Form: Lip-Synch a Limerick

07 31 12

Written by lin52

Time for something fun, poetry fans. Put away that solemn face and let your Inner Child out to play by writing a limerick.

In its simplest form, the limerick has five lines. It is lighthearted, sometimes naughty, witty and provokes a laugh. If you want to be a stickler for the form, Wiki says it is “anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA)”. Follow that or do your own thing. like I did below.

A Sad Tale

Lin Neiswender

There was a young lad from ‘Bama
With a taste for glitter and glammah
His designer stiletto shoe
Too high for his hair doo
Made him spend the night in the slammah.

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Comments on: "Focus on Form: Lip-Synch a Limerick" (6)

Margaret said:

07/31/2012 at 7:14 am

There once was a lad who felt glum,
so one morning he started to hum
a nice, lively tune
about flowers and June
while dancing around on a drum.
- lin52 said:
  
  08/14/2012 at 11:01 pm
  
  Thanks for your limmerick!
  
  Lin
Lin Neiswender said:

07/31/2012 at 8:11 am

Way to go Peggy!
- Margaret said:
  
  07/31/2012 at 10:05 am
  
  And on no coffee, no less!
Anne Westlund said:

08/03/2012 at 7:03 pm

Lin, yours is my favorite limerick of all time!
- lin52 said:
  
  08/03/2012 at 10:23 pm
  
  Thanks Anne, I love the poem too.

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