More on Limericks
Cover of The Limeric
I love rhyme. I love limericks, and I’ve written quite a few. Here, since I now have the perfect excuse,
are a few new ones.
Here’s one:
There once was a young lad from Kyoto
one evening while viewing a photo
saw a face so grotesque
it resembled a desk
and was sure he had seen Quasimodo.
and another:
One evening while cooking some rice,
a lass went to look for some ice.
When she failed to return,
the rice started to burn.
The poor lass had to cook her rice twice.
A note on meter in limerick:
The feet (metrical feet, not the things at the ends of your legs) for a limerick is typically an anapest
dum, dum, DUM or an amphibrach
dum DUM dum
with the first, third, and fifth lines consisting of three feet of three syllables each, and the third and fourth consisting of two metrical feet.
Edward Lear popularized the limerick, but in contrast to modern limericks, they contain neither humor nor a punch line, and the first and last lines were often the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear
Although Mr. Lear wrote some limericks
I’m thinking they really are gimmericks,
First and last lines the same
make them seem pretty lame.
and of humor there’s nary a glimmerick.
And here’s one about Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick:
Expressing intention to pass
on a third term, the governor of Mass
saw his influence ebb.
It’s all over the web.
Is he planning to seek greener grass?
annewestlund
feywriter
lin52
Margaret Fieland
Margaret
Michele
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