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
.
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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