I actually wrote a clean limerick. Why do limericks readily lend themselves to deviant verse?
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I actually wrote a clean limerick. Why do limericks readily lend themselves to deviant verse?
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Comments (21)
Nice, a good sing-song lilt.
Posted by Kukn | October 10, 2007 7:55 AM
Posted on October 10, 2007 07:55
Why do limericks readily lend themselves to deviant verse?
Maybe because limericks are also associated with adult beverages. : )
Posted by snowdog | October 10, 2007 9:14 AM
Posted on October 10, 2007 09:14
Because otherwise it's hard to rhyme "Nantucket."
Posted by DCM | October 10, 2007 9:46 AM
Posted on October 10, 2007 09:46
This month's Sunday Schlock Mercenary strips all have some sort of rhyming verse in them as part of a dream-sequence theme.
For one of them I had the narrator speak entirely in sequential limericks, where each limerick had some sort of final rhyme punchline AND told a piece of the whole story.
Ye gods, but that was difficult.
My point, then -- nice limerick, John. And the picture is wonderful too.
Posted by Howard Tayler | October 10, 2007 10:27 AM
Posted on October 10, 2007 10:27
One more thing -- the very best limericks don't go: AABBA for rhyme-scheme. They go like this:
A
A
B
B
BA
The fact that "poohed," and "food" both rhyme with the word "soup" in the middle of the last line is what really makes the limerick flow.
Again, very nice work.
Posted by Howard Tayler | October 10, 2007 10:30 AM
Posted on October 10, 2007 10:30
There once was a girl from Algiers.........
on second thought, I'd better not go there.
;o)
Posted by GarandFan | October 10, 2007 11:54 AM
Posted on October 10, 2007 11:54
Ah, a welcome break from duck haiku (ducku).
There once was a duck name o' Jack
Who swam and waddled and quacked.
A young girl named Sue
Put Jack in the stew
So now, she just calls him Snack.
Yeah, I'll keep working on it...
Posted by snowdog | October 10, 2007 1:06 PM
Posted on October 10, 2007 13:06
HEY HOWARD
Wow. That DOES sound tough. It could be a good theme for a children's story. I'd love to take a crack at something like that,
HEY SNOWDOG
Excellent attempt. Poor wittle Jack....
Posted by john Cox | October 10, 2007 1:39 PM
Posted on October 10, 2007 13:39
Hmmm...duck soup....sounds like a neat title for a movie.
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