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Sun 12 Nov, 2006 06:58 pm
This poem is a limerick. duh
It was at first spontaneously inspired, but as we know, true limericks require some work to perfect the meter and the rhyme....er...rhyme and rhythm.
Let me know whatcha think....and please post your own "not so spontaneous" poetry here.
The Lady and the Leprechaun
That was quite an undertaking. Very well done, if a bit lengthy.
thank you Edgar....I agree it was a bit lengthy....but.....it has a lot to be said where terse verse would not work.
I wouldn't ask you to change any of it.
Your work is not a traditional limerick.
Quote: limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's.
Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke." As you work with limericks, remember to have pun, I mean FUN! Say the following limericks out loud and clap to the rhythm.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
-Anonymous
http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/limerick.htm
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