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![]() | By any chance have you checked out Bubbles' blog?? No picking on the little peoples... please:)) bullies! lai d? lololololol weeeeeeee! You two! I'm about close to tears I'm laughing so hard, geez! Nice play on the words tho, my thumb's UP! | ![]() | |||
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![]() | hahahI 'm laughing at your response to that little 9 year old...lol...aww Hahaha You are Hilarious!! with this Lay - Lai poem! I do wonder whom this one is penned in for! LOL Gezzz See what trouble I seem to get into trying to tech you a pattern. But I see you haven’t learned yet! LOL It is a syllabic count of 5-5-2 <<repeated 3 times. I’m sure this is a typo… run and fix before you get my class confused! Giggles YOU think you are sooo funny dontcha? Just for this you are assigned a Limerick poem! And it’s due by tomorrow! LMBO! A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are frequently witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The following example of a limerick is of anonymous origin: 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. Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick, as a folk form, is always obscene, and cites (x-xi) similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw, describing the clean limerick as a periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity. That is to say, from a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its function. Form A limerick has five lines, with three metrical feet in the first, second, and fifth lines and two metrical feet in the third and fourth lines. A variety of types of metrical foot can be used, but the most typical are the amphibrach (a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables) and the anapaest (two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable). The rhyme scheme is usually AABBA. The first line of a limerick traditionally introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and therefore establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines. In early limericks, the last line was often essentially a repeat of the first line, although this is no longer customary. Within the genre, ordinary speech stress is often distorted in the first line, and may be regarded as a feature of the form: "There WAS a young MAN from the COAST;" "There ONCE was a GIRL from DeTROIT..." Legman (xliv) takes this as a convention whereby prosody is violated simultaneously with propriety. Exploitation of geographical names, especially exotic ones, is also common, and has been seen as invoking memories of geography lessons in order to subvert the decorum taught in the schoolroom; Legman finds that the exchange of limericks is almost exclusive to comparatively well-educated males (women figuring in limericks almost exclusively as "villains or victims," according to Legman). The most prized limericks incorporate a kind of twist, which may be revealed in the final line, or may lie in the way the rhymes are often intentionally tortured, or both. Many limericks additionally show some form of internal rhyme, alliteration or assonance, or some element of wordplay. Some examples exploit the strict form of the limerick to lead the listener into expecting a particular conclusion, particularly one that would be obscene or shocking, and then derive humour from cunningly avoiding the expected words: There once was a lady from Bude Who went swimming one day in the lake. A man in a punt Stuck his pole in the water And said "You can't swim here--it's private." Verses in limerick form are sometimes combined with a refrain to form a limerick song, a traditional humorous drinking song often with obscene verses. | ![]() | |||
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![]() | There once was a salesman from Kentucky whose teeth earned him the nickname of Bucky He much loved to bathe and shower suspiciously so, for hour upon hour He was last seen sheepishly nibbling his Rubber Ducky | ![]() | |||
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![]() | If this salesman from Kentucky Stopped nibbling on his rubber ducky Maybe his teeth wouldn’t appear so" Bucky" Bathe and shower upon hours and hours? Where ever does he fine the time? This salesperson sales are down far as I can see Perhaps is he in the car industry?? | ![]() | |||
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![]() | hahahaha I jumped right in spinning off your poem...I see YOU wrote a Limerick! I had forgotten you had homework to do...lol...and it's turn in on time! YOU get an A+ The rhyme scheme is AABBA! YOU learn fast! Congrats! Thank you for meeting the challenge! | ![]() | |||
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