Talk:Limerick (poetry)

Example

Must think of a better example. The metre is wrong on the current one -- Tarquin

Is it better after taking out the vandalism from a couple months ago? --Brion

Much. I obviously didn't read that closely... it's pre-breakfast in my time zone :-) -- Tarquin

Quotations

Those two references about the name, currently reference 1 and 2, are, judging by references on the web, from the fascicle containing the L, 1898, from the Oxford Dictionary 1928 edition. What is it that has to be referenced about Sumer is icumen in, currently the third reference, which has its own page? Mysha

Meta-limericks

there should be a section on meta-limericks, that is, limericks about limericks

meter isn't right on this one, but:

There was an old Limerick with the flu,

Who lived with his zebra and gnu.

And here's a verse

even worse than the first;

He thought he was a haiku.

This one is meta in the sense that it's a template limerick (73.53.44.165 (talk) 03:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)):

There once was an entity E

That satisfied predicate P.

It performed action A

In a specified way,

Resulting in circumstance C.

More Anti Lyrics

Found these

A newspaper poet for Hearst

Deprived of his reason

By uncontrolled sneezing

Was by phantasmal demons coerced

To write all of his limericks reversed.

A very sad poet was Jenny,

her Limericks weren't worth a penny.

In technique they were sound

but in practice she found

that whenever she tried to write any,

they always had on line too many.

This Limerick is copyright (©)

By the author, 1983.

Prior written consent

Is required to present

It on radio, film, or TV.

if ( i = t^2 + e)

& (e = 14 + 3)

Then i > pi

& e > i

& (e/pi) i 4 t

Pronounced:

if i equals t squared plus e

and e equals forteen plus three

then i is greater than pi

and e is greater then i

and e divides pi by i for t

(Hmm ...

t^2 must be greater than naught

if t is aught other than aught,

and forteen plus three

is the value of e,

so this needs a little more thought.

... 73.53.44.165 (talk) 04:50, 17 February 2014 (UTC))

There once was a fellow from Xiangling

China. Whose delight was in mangling

Poems. He would drop

Words between lines and lop

Their ends off, and leave readers dang

A lady whose name was McCord

Once over this limerick pored

To find the evil design

Hidden in the last line

But alas, she could not see the

A cardiac patient named Fred

Made a limerick up in his head.

But before he had time

To write down the last line

He died!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.117.78.208 (talk) 07:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Alternatively, to maintain the limerick's meter: "The poor little bastard was dead." 142.177.218.134 (talk) 23:59, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Which would, however, completely kill the joke. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 11:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

"Limerick"

The usage of Limerick is under discussion, see Talk:Limerick -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 22:37, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Analysis of Gilbert example

In respect to the Gilbert example is it worth mentioning that an upper-class affectation at the time pronounced "doesn't" as "don't" (so that lines 3 and 4 nearly rhyme), and that while 1, 2, and 5 do not rhyme all end with a hymenopteran? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.110.44 (talk) 23:27, 16 October 2014 (UTC)