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Aug 9 03, 17:37
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A Limerick is a popular form of short, humorous verse, often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant meter is anapestic (a metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen. 2. A line of verse using this meter; for example, Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house), with two feet in the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others. Examples of limerick:
"The limerick packs laughs anatomical into space that is quite economical, But the good ones Ive seen so seldom are clean and the clean ones so seldom are comical."
"There once was a young man from Kew who found a dead mouse in his stew. Said the waiter, Dont shout or wave it about, or the rest will be wanting one too!
"There was an old man from Peru, who dreamed he was eating his shoe. He woke in a fright in the middle of the night and found it was perfectly true."
The origin of the term is obscure, but a group of poets in Co. Limerick, Ireland, wrote limericks in Irish in the 18th cent. The first collections in English date from c.1820. Among the most famous are those in E. Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846).
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If in gluttony you eat your crutch you had best search around in your hutch for food to digest; you'll find that it's best not to eat metal, wood, dirt and such!
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Cleo_Serapis Limerick Aug 9 03, 17:37 Larry Will that mass of cheap gas eâer return
that the... Aug 8 23, 09:45 JustDaniel Am I poisoning you when I burn
paper trash with tr... Aug 11 23, 03:36 Larry I, too, yearn for some rest from my work
on the la... Aug 12 23, 01:29 JustDaniel Creatures lurk from your piles of leaf-rot
None sh... Aug 12 23, 18:28 Larry Shooting creatures to put in a pot
seems to be ine... Aug 18 23, 22:04 JustDaniel gamy meats oft are sold by the lot
for the passeng... Aug 20 23, 21:06 Larry Youâve bought tickets for some dinner cruise
on... Aug 24 23, 10:05 JustDaniel Poor boozer got drunk with no food
but he thought ... Aug 26 23, 22:41 Larry If folks think you are lewd to break-dance
without... Aug 28 23, 10:28 JustDaniel If your clothes are now full of red ants
you had b... Aug 29 23, 05:25 Larry When your broker is shouting and rants
about all t... Aug 31 23, 11:39 JustDaniel If you finance his travel to France
you can pack a... Sep 3 23, 07:35 Larry If the dancing inspectors canât find
the C-4 tha... Sep 6 23, 00:31 JustDaniel If the bite the dog gives is unkind
you'll thr... Sep 9 23, 09:29 Larry In the toilet, your bodyâs refined
your last mea... Sep 12 23, 21:57 JustDaniel If the scents left behind are perfume
from a skunk... Sep 15 23, 10:12 Larry If youâre staying away from the room
where the f... Sep 18 23, 09:42 JustDaniel If the loom is the source of your fruit
then perha... Sep 18 23, 21:00 Larry âher suitâs not hirsute?â
If her suitâs ... Sep 19 23, 23:02 JustDaniel As a tailer, you'll never get rich
unless ever... Sep 22 23, 12:51 Larry So all Italy thinks Iâm a bitch;
I complain but ... Sep 26 23, 08:53 JustDaniel If your hygiene leaves you with an itch
perhaps yo... Sep 27 23, 04:59 Larry Driving âround when I found in a ditch
some bar ... Sep 29 23, 08:14 JustDaniel You're bewitched by the scent of your tent?
Do... Oct 3 23, 08:56 Larry If youâve paid all your money for rent
and maxed... Oct 7 23, 00:33 JustDaniel If one takes in the do-do Joe sends
it is likely t... Oct 7 23, 21:40 Larry If heâs making amends to his wife
for the crap t... Oct 9 23, 20:33 JustDaniel If you like to clean house with your wife
while sh... Oct 10 23, 03:25 Larry If your life is what you would defend,
let me intr... Oct 13 23, 08:59 JustDaniel If you your loud friend will not lend
are there ot... Oct 19 23, 09:49 Larry If you look for someone to defend
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who can kno... Oct 25 23, 08:27 Larry When youâre loaded, your pants tend to sag
for y... Oct 26 23, 09:49 JustDaniel If you gag after picking your place
move your fing... Oct 27 23, 10:39 Larry No disgrace for my fingers are clean
like the rest... Oct 31 23, 10:22 JustDaniel You require it to all be pristine?
Then be sure yo... Nov 6 23, 05:40 Larry If you find yourself caught in-between
two woke cr... Nov 10 23, 00:55 JustDaniel If they vacate Scene Three of your play
is there r... Nov 10 23, 15:00 Larry If you fly with the birds to Bombay;
do you take s... Nov 14 23, 10:54 JustDaniel You don't care if someone's in the way
whe... Nov 15 23, 22:12 Larry When you feel that your aim is top-notch
so thereâ... Nov 20 23, 12:29 JustDaniel If you constantly peer at your watch
while you... Nov 23 23, 20:08 Larry Notch a blotch? Iâm not sure what you mean
for ... Nov 29 23, 13:17 JustDaniel It's important to have a clean score
and perha... Dec 1 23, 11:57 Larry I have felt like Iâm poor for so long
that there... Dec 18 23, 11:08 JustDaniel Don't go wearing that thong in a throng
or you... Dec 20 23, 23:24 Larry If prolonging my stay in the jail
I would hope tha... Jan 5 24, 10:53 JustDaniel If you don't want to add to the smell
take a s... Jan 6 24, 14:01 Larry Tidy cells are what scientists need
when theyâre... Jan 19 24, 01:41 JustDaniel We all know of the greed of big pharma
who show li... Jan 19 24, 10:12 Larry When they garner their power and wealth,
whether i... Jan 25 24, 13:44 JustDaniel For the sake of their health, they insure â
high... Jan 26 24, 15:11 Larry If Kuala Lumpur was my move
would the folks who li... Feb 1 24, 10:53 JustDaniel If you're planning to camp at the Louvre
you h... Feb 1 24, 15:07 Larry If the Gendarmes try wrecking my camp
Iâve erect... Feb 4 24, 11:42 JustDaniel If the visitor's stamp on their passport
is a ... Feb 4 24, 20:41 Larry Yes, we should have deported the masses.
Itâs to... Feb 6 24, 12:46 JustDaniel Are the senators passing their bill
merely ducks t... Feb 7 24, 11:56 Larry If some Senators moved to Brazil;
Democrats and th... Feb 12 24, 02:32 JustDaniel A slight blood-loss may well be my fate
while repl... Feb 12 24, 07:55 Larry Daniel, Iâm unsure of how serious your prostheti... Feb 13 24, 19:53 JustDaniel I must wait till July, but oh, well
we must finish... Feb 14 24, 09:25 Larry When their comprehension starts to gel
in the clas... Feb 15 24, 01:29 JustDaniel Hell is hard in all languages spoken
for the pain ... Feb 15 24, 05:29 Larry If youâre constantly stoking the coals
in your g... Feb 17 24, 12:33 JustDaniel If you're burning your rolls, just slow down
C... Feb 18 24, 12:44 Larry If folks give me a crown when they eat
a rare stea... Feb 22 24, 12:47 JustDaniel Burger King would compete if they could
but they d... Feb 23 24, 04:19 Larry When your burger is rare youâll produce
customer... Feb 27 24, 12:29 JustDaniel If your burgers disrupt your caboose
so your const... Feb 27 24, 14:49 Larry If whatâs flowing like juice from your ends
canâ... Mar 4 24, 11:44 JustDaniel If your friends who picked all up, are gone
and yo... Mar 4 24, 15:33 Larry So you think my accountâs overdrawn
and I now ha... Mar 8 24, 19:07 JustDaniel With my brains and my brawn mostly gone
I don... Mar 9 24, 10:13 Larry Life is no paragon, thatâs the truth
and it hasn... Mar 19 24, 09:27 JustDaniel With poor sight, little hair, longing teeth
and fe... Mar 19 24, 10:37 Larry So youâve found the floor hard down beneath
thro... Mar 29 24, 18:35 JustDaniel Make a wreath out of some blow-up toy?
Should I ha... Mar 30 24, 01:07 Larry Blowing up a pool toyâs a feat
in which I can no... Apr 6 24, 11:20 JustDaniel With inflation it's hard to compete
so I often... Apr 7 24, 08:27 Larry So finances deplete while you watch
as you tighten... Apr 13 24, 23:30 JustDaniel Well, if Biden had made your crotch itch
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makes... Apr 22 24, 20:02 JustDaniel So you think that you're pretty and cool?
Do y... Apr 24 24, 07:46 Larry Femininityâs cool if you are
but your y-chromoso... Apr 26 24, 09:54 JustDaniel Being RuPaul's next star ain't for me
Wear... Apr 27 24, 03:49 Larry House debris thatâs swept under the rug
decompos... May 3 24, 10:29 JustDaniel Since your neighbors have dug a new dump
you'v... May 4 24, 06:16 Larry If what comes from your rump is too much,
whether ... May 13 24, 09:29
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