Bill
Limerick poetry form

A limerick is a verse form of five lines.  WIth a rhyme scheme AABBA.  So the first, second and fifth lines rhyme as do the third and fourth.  Normally comic and being generally descriptive the fifth line normally offers both a punch line and twist to the tale.

My favorite (modified for non-natives)

A wonderful bird is the pelican

His bill can hold more than his belly-can

He can take in his beak

Enough food for a week

But I'm damned if I see how the hell-he-can

2018年12月29日 17:18
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Oh, no... I didn't think to save it, and a Google search isn't finding it for me. It might have been something like this:

There once was a man from Milwaukee,

Whose limericks were quirky and pawky;

But at Su.Ki.'s behest,

And specific request,

He reposted this one on Italki.

2018年12月29日
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So nice limirick. Here I have one:

One day a young girl from Baghdad

Went on a trip with her dad,

She cooked him some fish

She burnt the whole dish,

That's probably whey he went mad.



2018年12月29日
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Well, I'm impressed...


A talented man called Dan Smith

Whose erudition is more than a myth

Responded with zeal

To SuKi's appeal

And penned a new lim'rick forthwith!

2018年12月30日
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Hi Phil,

Of course it isn't a true story. In fact I found it in the English curriculum book for Iraqi students.

Here is another one:

There was an old man from Brazil

Who suddenly felt very ill,

'Oh I've eaten that pie,

I think I will die.

Or may be I'll just take a pill.


2018年12月29日
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Two famous ones:


There was an old man from Sudan,

Whose limericks never would scan;

When they said "But the thing

Doesn't have any swing,"

He said "It's because I always like to put as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."


There was also a lady from China,

Whose feeling for rhythm was finer:

Her limericks tend

To come to an end

Quite suddenly.

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