Companion Comment thread-Poet Laureate Challenge or the limmerick thread

[ForresterModern]

My, my, my. Look what I started. It seems we may have several challengers for the title, with Macclef and Big Mikey jumping into the fray with their own entertaining verse. This is getting fun.

[Andy]

I'm working on a haiku....

[ForresterModern]

Looks like we may have need of a limerick thread as well.

[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.

[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]

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?

[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.

[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