Companion Comment thread-Poet Laureate Challenge or the limmerick thread

[Barry]

..... limerick structure this time (I hope I don't have to explain that one).

Looks a though you might have to

Moderators - can you move the AlanH and MacMillan limerics to the limericks thread? That would be nice.

[Panache]

Looks a though you might have to

Moderators - can you move the AlanH and MacMillan limerics to the limericks thread? That would be nice.

OK I have moved all the limericks to one thread to be found here:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/x...x.html?t=47332

To get all the limericks together with the introduction/ instructions at the top I had to create a new thread

My apologies for any inconvenienece to anyone


Cheers

Jamie

[ForresterModern]

Barry's pen going silent this morning, albeit hopefully only temporarily, may leave the gauntlet lying for another to pickup and carry. Several others have contributed wonderful sets. Let us not give up on this thread yet.

[ali8780]

Now, Ali is a likely-lookin' lass.
She's the purveyor of kilted "high class".
When she's in tartan, bedight
she goes shopping at night
'till her wallet has run out of gas.

Alan, how did you hear of my spending habits?

[Rex_Tremende]

Barry's pen going silent this morning, albeit hopefully only temporarily, may leave the gauntlet lying for another to pickup and carry. Several others have contributed wonderful sets. Let us not give up on this thread yet.

Not just silent, it went limp after having spent its passion!

Now that's poetry!

Regards,
Rex.

[ali8780]

(Chuckle) That was for the other thread.

Limericks traditionally are in an anapestic meter. The anapest "unit" is (short short long) or (soft soft hard) if you prefer. The limerick's lines contain 3, 3, 2+2, and 3 of those.

dee dee DUM dee dee DUM dee dee DUM (trimeter :-)
dee dee DUM dee dee DUM dee dee DUM
dee dee DUM dee dee DUM
dee dee DUM dee dee DUM (tetrameter)
dee dee DUM dee dee DUM dee dee DUM


Iambic pentameter means 5 iambs (dee DUM) as in:



Iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme, for instance most of Shakespeare's plays, is called blank verse. Rhymed couplets, available at extra cost, are a nice way to close out a speech.

I know, I was just teasing

Although I will say that iambic pentameter was indeed difficult to master when I was in high school

[ForresterModern]

I know, I was just teasing

Although I will say that iambic pentameter was indeed difficult to master when I was in high school

Tough to read sometimes too, especially with the middle english mixed in with it. My sympathies, Ali.

[kiltedsawyer]

This rhyming's surely an addiction.
Is it solely my affliction?
Don't leave me here all by myself,
So many rhymes upon the shelf.
Upon my hands there's too much time.
Panache dear sir, have you no rhyme?

Okay, I just can't help myself.......

To wear the kilt and the sporran,
It's bifurcation we're abhorrin'.
Let'm dangle, let'm swing,
Tis of liberty I sing.
No more ado, ifs, ands, or buts,
Don't let the squirrels claw your nuts.

I don't think I can stop! Help!

[ali8780]

Tough to read sometimes too, especially with the middle english mixed in with it. My sympathies, Ali.

yeah, don't even get me started on middle English! Beowulf still makes me shudder

[Peter C.]

yeah, don't even get me started on middle English! Beowulf still makes me shudder

Must be the same sort of trouble I'm having with American English.

Peter