![]() ![]() And then next week we can try some lighter verse again … I’m thinking of trying a double dactyl–also known as a “higgledy-piggledy.” I’d love to see what you come up with in either form– or your thoughts about these poems, poetic form, or poetry in general. I think I’ll try a Sicilian quintain for this week. Less challenging than a sonnet, but working up to it >:->. And here is a poignant poem, “Home Is So Sad” by Philip Larkin, which is written in “Sicilian Quintain,” stanzas of iambic pentameter rhyming ABABA: I can’t believe I never noticed that before. As a group, they are called “quintains.” That old chestnut, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” is written in 5-line stanzas of iambic tetrameter, rhyming ABAAB. And Sue Lin is definitely a master, combining fol-der-ol highfalutin’ French with the requisite references to bodily functions:įun, no? In trying to decide what form to do this week, I discovered that the limerick is just one of several 5-line forms of poetry (who knew?). I love how Charlie was able to incorporate multisyllabic politicospeak into this very short form. If God tells them health care’s disturbing Here’s Charlie’s timely politicalimerick: In keeping with the limerick’s origins as a ribald, subversive verse form, my friends Charlie Mitchell and Sue Lin Chong offered some excellent examples of their own. He scratched, scratched, and scratched it, In honor of that tradition, here’s a limerick for my home town: Whose chickens came feathered, not pluckéd,Īccording to Gershon Legman’s The Limerick (1988), the prevalence of geographical references in limericks is meant to parody primary school geography lessons, in keeping with the verse form’s generally antiauthoritarian nature. I’ll leave the final two words for you to fill in. The reprinting of Edward Lears Book of Nonsense in 1863 inadvertently created the English limerick fad. The limerick, bawdy and obnoxious, is not unlike a freak-show curiosity in the carnival of literary forms. YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.Here is the limerick I came up with: the first line should ring a bell. 'There Once Was a Man From Nantucket': The Limerick. YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. There are numerous limerick variations that begin this way, many of which are considered dirty or inappropriate. Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. Perhaps the most famous example of limerick begins with the line: There once was a man from Nantucket. YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Google sets the cookie for advertising purposes to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to unwanted mute ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.ĭ sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. ![]() Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. Google sets this cookie to determine what ads have been shown to the website visitor. Google Ads Service uses this cookie to collect information about from multiple websites for retargeting ads. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. Know Someone Who'd Like This?Īdvertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. Thanks to those who have contributed theirs, more are always welcome a they are very good. Following reports that Biden will celebrate the holiday with family on the Massachusetts island Nantucket, Cruz tweeted this reference to the there once was a man from. If you have any more good limericks you are welcome to post them in the section below. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) responded to President Joe Biden’s Thanksgiving plans with the first line of a limerick, and Twitter users thought it was a poetic self-own. There once was a man from Nantucket, Cruz tweeted, linking to a story about Biden’s plan to spend Thanksgiving on Nantucket, a tiny island off the coast of Massachusetts. These are a bit saucy and not safe for kids, just the way it should be on this website! So she pulled up her dress and said f*uck it! Here is a small collection of some of the most popular funny limericks: ![]()
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