The Stephen King Limerick Thing

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Donald Miller

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It's around halloween, and I thought it might be a good challenge to do a bit of poetry. These limericks are not to be offensive or lewd, just an idea for the shrewd to tickle their own funny bone.

At the bottom is one that I knocked off in about eight minutes.

A limerick is a form of poetry, especially one in five-line anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA). The first, second and fifth lines are usually longer than the third and fourth. The form can be found in England as of the early years of the 18th century. It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century, although he did not use the term.

An anapaest is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one.

The foot is the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse. The unit is composed of syllables, the number of which is limited, with a few variations, by the sound pattern the foot represents. The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest.

by Donald Miller "The Man From Maine"

There once was a man from Maine

Who made writing his special domain

He could frighten

But did also enlighten

This both critics and fans proclaim

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Donald Miller

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If anyone is interested in this it might be fun to make a story with the rhyme scheme.

This is one that might be part of a poem about Shawshank prison and Andy Dufresne.
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Shawshank is a prison that's real

A place for men who rob, kill, and steal

The name sounds quite scary

Inside, you better be wary

The bulls might give you a raw deal

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Todash

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Here's one that's just kinda Halloween-y. It's a bit unconventional because it doesn't use the typical "there once was a" structure, but the rhyme pattern and meter are there.

There's doings that go on beneath,
And the day is a knife in a sheath.
But when twilight arrives,
The dark things come alive,
For the long, narrow night has sharp teeth.