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What 'gay pride' is, and how it is manifested in the gay pride march.

Your school had a higher class of vandalism.

There is a barmaid in Yale,
Whose breasts are tattooed with price of white ale,
And on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
Is the same information in braille.
 
I don't enjoy reading fiction. I read textbooks for enjoyment. In grade school I read the World Book encyclopedia because I was bored in class.
Everything written is a fiction. This is the last lesson of the humanities.
As for boredom, frankly, I just don't understand it; I've never in my life been bored, not once, not for a moment.
 
There is a barmaid in Yale,
Whose breasts are tattooed with price of white ale,
And on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
Is the same information in braille.
No cigar, Rich. The meter is way off.
This is more like it:

The boobs of a barmaid at Yale
Were tattooed with price of white ale,
And on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
Was the same information in braille.
 
No cigar, Rich. The meter is way off.
This is more like it:

The boobs of a barmaid at Yale
Were tattooed with price of white ale,
And on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
Was the same information in braille.


Lisa was right, I enjoyed a higher class of vandal.
 
A higher class of vandalism perhaps, but clearly a novice at poesy.

I don't know what "poesy" is.

I prefer my version better than your rather vulgar one.


The barmaid on the paddle steamer Natchez,
Has britches all covered in patches,
When asked of the cause,
Of the state of her drawers,
She said why I itches I scratches.
 
I don't know what "poesy" is.

I prefer my version better than your rather vulgar one.


The barmaid on the paddle steamer Natchez,
Has britches all covered in patches,
When asked of the cause,
Of the state of her drawers,
She said why I itches I scratches.
This limerick is sound.
The other one, which you "prefer," is a travesty of a limerick.
 
I already told you. The metrics are all off.

So what? The number of syllables per line isn't fixed.

There was a young man from Dundee,
Who was stung on the neck by a wasp,
When asked does it hurt,
He replied not very much,
It can do it again if it likes.


Happy?
 
So what? The number of syllables per line isn't fixed.

There was a young man from Dundee,
Who was stung on the neck by a wasp,
When asked does it hurt,
He replied not very much,
It can do it again if it likes.


Happy?
Don't you get tired of being wrong?
Grammar, poetry -- you don't know what you're talking about in either case.

Limericks are short poems of five lines having rhyme structure AABBA. It is officially described as a form of 'anapestic trimeter'.

The 'anapest' is a foot of poetic verse consisting of three syllables, the third longer (or accentuated to a greater degree) than the first two: da-da-DA. The word 'anapest' shows it's own metric: anaPEST.

Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick should ideally consist of three anapests each, concluding with an identical or similar phoneme to create the rhyme.

Lines 3 and 4 are shorter, constructed of two anapests each and again rhyming with each other with the overall rhyme structure of AABBA.

THE STRUCTURE OF A LIMERICK
 
So what? The number of syllables per line isn't fixed.

There was a young man from Dundee,
Who was stung on the neck by a wasp,
When asked does it hurt,
He replied not very much,
It can do it again if it likes.


Happy?

There was a young man from Japan
Whose Limericks never would scan
When they asked why
He said "You see I
Always try to get as many words in the last line as I possibly can".
 
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