the limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean And the clean ones so seldom are comical
Alexander Young
There once was a maid from madras Who had the most wonderful ass Not round and pink as you may think But gray with long ears and ate grass
Austin Sanders
bump for suggestions
Xavier Russell
There is a man with a large nose Who is loathed wherever he goes Armed with shekels and bombs He joins both his palms And blames everyone else for his woes
Landon Perez
>bombs and palms rhyme
Jonathan Torres
There once was a poster on Veeky Forums Who couldn't write limericks for shit So I saged his thread, and went off to bed Fed up with with the moronic twit
Thomas Gutierrez
Has no one come across such books?
Owen Edwards
edward gorey is (was) the master of the art, the modern incarnation of edward lear
Brandon Taylor
Yeah they do
Jaxson Lee
>with with >Fucking up the scheme regardless
Wew.
Bentley Perry
There once was a fag named OP Whose posts were shitty and dopey I saged his gay thread And retired to bed So my sister and I could get gropey
Lucas Thomas
There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankerer Till he sowed his wild oats With the help of a goat But he didn’t even stop to thankera.
--Boris Johnson's limerick about Pres. Erdogan
Dylan Rogers
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Jacob Torres
>americans actually believe this
Isaac Bailey
>pronouncing the L What are you, gay?
Oliver Campbell
Producing it is just a matter of following the form It's a five-line poem with an A-A-B-B-A rhyme scheme The scansion is da DA da da DA da da DA da DA da da DA da da DA da DA da da DA da DA da da DA da DA da da DA da da DA (it can be modified into a feminine rhyme like with one or more unaccented syllables at the ends of the B or especially the A lines) The first line usually starts 'There once was a man from...' or 'There was an old man ...' (or 'young', etc)
David Morales
My apologies for the duplicate word. Other than that, how did I mess up the scheme?
(Sage is two syllables by the way)
Leo Taylor
If you weren't retarded you'd pronounce bombs as : /bɒmz/ and palms as: /pɑːmz/ Which doesn't rhyme.
Colton Wright
>he thinks it's about the L Hopeless
Justin Peterson
I mean, this hasn't really been complemented.
This is great.
Camden Rogers
it's not OC, you know
Brayden Diaz
Thanks for you help
Gavin Long
Thank you as well for your help as well. What makes a rhyme masculine?
Also a link to some collections of limerics for others who are interested
A masculine rhyme is one in which the words end with a stressed syllable, and for a feminine rhyme they end unstressed. The feminine scheme lends itself more naturally to humor
Bentley Flores
Thanks for the clarification, what is a good resource to understand these basic concepts of poetry?