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limerick::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of limerick
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There's even a limerick in there about being put on diuretics, he adds brightly.
From the theargus.co.uk
Norman Corwin, poet of the airwaves, master of the not-for-prime-time limerick.
From the latimes.com
The limerick form is so well known that it can be parodied in fairly subtle ways.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The students then took turns coming up to the microphone and performed their limerick.
From the desmoinesregister.com
After you write a limerick, you submit it to us by e-mail or regular mail.
From the charlotteobserver.com
There are 13 feet, or stressed syllables, to the limerick-no more, no less.
From the time.com
Limerick consists of two boiling water reactors and is located on the Schuylkill River.
From the theepochtimes.com
They then made up their own limerick and practiced saying it out loud.
From the desmoinesregister.com
The Observer's limerick contest ends this Wednesday, St. Patrick's Day.
From the charlotteobserver.com
- Port city in southwestern Ireland
- A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
- Limerick (pronounced ; Irish: Luimneach) is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city in County Limerick. Population wise, it is the fourth largest city in all of Ireland. ...
- A limerick is a five-line poem in or meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which intends to be witty or humorous, and is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. ...
- The Limerick is a traditional humorous drinking song with many obscene verses. Alternate titles for this song are "In China They Never Eat Chili", "Sing Us Another One", "Ya-Ya", "Rodriguez the Mexican Pervert" and "Aye-Yi-Yi-Yi". The tune usually used for sung limericks is "The Gay Caballero".
- (Limericks) (anonymous, W.H. Auden). 1980 (Guelph 1980). SATB, mezzo, instr ensemble. Ms. Centrediscs CMC-2385 (Kern mezzo, Elmer Iseler Singers)
- A folkloric poem, often humorous and sometimes ribald, in which lines one, two, and five rhyme, while lines three and four form a rhymed couplet. Unlike the French ode, Italian sonnet, and Japanese haiku, the five-line limerick is wholly English; from the refrain "Will you come up to Limerick? ...
- Salt-Works Press, 1973
- A fixed verse form appearing first in The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women (1820), popularized by Edward Lear, and rhyming aabba, where a-lines have five feet and the b-lines three feet, and where the first and last lines end with the same word (a practice dropped in the 20th century). ...
