How do you write a limerick? - Democratic Underground

JohnKleeb

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Sat Jan-22-05 08:19 PM
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How do you write a limerick?

i liken poetry.

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DaveinMD

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Sat Jan-22-05 08:40 PM
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1. when you find out

you should write one for that girl you like.

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JohnKleeb

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Sat Jan-22-05 08:44 PM
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2. I like love poetry

love poetry overall.

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mcscajun

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Sun Jan-23-05 10:57 AM
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3. This one pretty much describes how — without offense.

Edited on Sun Jan-23-05 11:00 AM by mcscajun

"The limerick is furtive and mean;
You must keep her in close quarantine,
Or she sneaks to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk and obscene." — Morris Bishop

I'm a purist where limericks are concerned. It's five lines of poetry, please attend to the meter, and make sure something in it is risqué. The ones that begin “There was a…” are “lazy limericks”; and clean limericks aren't limericks at all, IMHO.

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