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How to write a Limerick
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Funny Limericks
How to Write a Limerick
700 Limericks
& How To Write Them
ISBN
978-1-4116-5494-5 (Order online or from your local bookstore)
Poetry or verse needs rhyme and rhythm.
Rhyme is where the end words have similar sounds like "right" and "write"; "limerick" and "slimerik" even when they look different. Near rhymes are sometimes used like "poet" and "goat" especially in non-serious verse.
Rhythm is the pattern of stresses in the line. Words have some of their syllables more stressed than others such as: poetry, limerick, stanza, doggerel.
A limerick writer of note
Accused
of just acting the goat
Had
claimed in defense
It's all
a nonsense
I'd rather be
known as a poet.
This is the traditional structure of the single verse limerick:
di dum di di dum di di dum A
di
dum di di dum di di dum A
di
dum di di
dum B
di
dum di di dum
B
di
dum di di dum di di dum A
Try
to have the punch line coming last and make
it witty and unexpected for the best effect.
Alliteration is where there is a series of words starting with the same sound such as:
A Limerick lady in love
Heardsoft cooing sounds from above.
She
saw on the ceiling
A sight
most revealing,
And grasped at her
gob with her glove!
So now you know the right way to write a limerick.
Note: US style spelling used. In UK English defense is spelled defence but both are pronounced the same way.
"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense" - Mark Twain
You also might like to check out: 700 Limericks & How To Write Them Paperback book or Download. Explains in greater detail how to write a limerick and the use of alliteration, assonance, consonance, pace, tone and other poetic devices with over 700 examples to enjoy and study, by William Clark. Suitable for all ages.
Limericks today -- song lyrics tomorrow
Master the art of the limerick and you are well on the way to becoming a poet or lyric writer. Learn structure, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, assonance and consonance and you only need inspiration to produce a hit song.
Well, it is not quite that easy but it is a good starting point.
The fairy that fell off the tree
Was told
by a gnome,"You are twee."
The fairy
replied,
"I might well have cried,
But
instead I will just kick your knee!"
A LIMERICK writer of
note,
Accused of, "Just acting the goat,"
Soon claimed in
defence,*
"It's all a nonsense -
I'd rather be known as a
poet!"
700 Limericks & How To Write
Them Read the review.
ISBN
978-1-4116-5494-5 (Order online or from your local bookstore)
William Clark the programmer of the Limerick Show is a published and broadcast poet.
Like to try one of his songs: Ol' Jim (Magic in Them Feet)
