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I read the pornographic limericks carved into the desks.
Your school had a higher class of vandalism.
I read the pornographic limericks carved into the desks.
Your school had a higher class of vandalism.
Or, we may just finally have are first DP Porn Star!
Fair enough... but it kinda came across that way.
Everything written is a fiction. This is the last lesson of the humanities.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.
No cigar, Rich. The meter is way off.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.
A higher class of vandalism perhaps, but clearly a novice at poesy.Lisa was right, I enjoyed a higher class of vandal.
A higher class of vandalism perhaps, but clearly a novice at poesy.
Lisa was right, I enjoyed a higher class of vandal.
This limerick is sound.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.A travesty?
How so?
I already told you. The metrics are all off.
Don't you get tired of being wrong?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?
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.
Don't you get tired of being wrong?
Grammar, poetry -- you don't know what you're talking about in either case.
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".
The blind leading the blind. Enjoy the ditch, fellas.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".
I love it.
The blind leading the blind. Enjoy the ditch, fellas.