Limerick Junction (Revision 5), limerick Options

[Maggie]

Limerick Junction (Revision 5 )

We're going to Limerick Junction
where poetry lost all compunction.
Such poems are crude
with language that's lewd.
Obscenity is their main function.

Peggy Carpenter Harwood

Limerick Junction (Revision 4)

We're going to Limerick Junction
where poetry lost all compunction.
Such poems are crude
with language that's lewd.
Obscene humor is their function.


Limerick Junction (Revision 3)

We're going to Limerick Junction
where poetry lost all compunction.
Such poems are crude
with language that's lewd.
Scandalous humor is their function.


Limerick Junction (Revision2)

We're going to Limerick Junction
where poetry lost all compunction.
Such poems are crude
with language that's lewd.
Sexual humor is their function.



Limerick Junction (Revision1)

We're going to Limerick Junction
where poetry lost all compunction.
Such poems are crude
with language that's lewd.
Bawdy humor is their function.

Peggy Carpenter Harwood

Limerick Junction

We're going to Limerick Junction
where poetry lost all compunction.
Such poems are crude
with much language lewd.
Bawdy humor is their function.

Peggy Carpenter Harwood

[Marc-Andre Germa...]

Limerick Junction

Accentual verse scan:

We're going to Limerick Junction
where poetry lost all compunction.
Such poems are crude
with much language lewd.
>>Hard to promote "much" and leave the first syllable of "language" unstressed.
Bawdy humor is their function.

Accentual-syllabic scan:

We're go/ing to Li/merick Junc/tion
where po/etry lost/ all compunc/tion.
>>An alternate scan would be "e - try / LOST - ALL/", now as a minor ionic or double iamb.
Such po/ems are crude/
with much lang/uage lewd./
>>An iambic substitution in the first foot of a line in a limerick is acceptable, less so in the last foot.
Bawdy/ humor is/ their func/tion.
>>I could easily scan the first syllable of "bawdy" as unstressed; where the meter of this line breaks down is the succession of three weak sounds "-mor is their"

I we stress "is", this line becomes a perfect trochaic tetrameter, which I don't find fitting for a limerick:
Bawdy/ humor/ is their/ function./

Besides the meter, the rhymes are solid and the contents appropriate.

I hope this helps.

Mark