But either way, there’s something about the limerick form that wants to illustrate light, humorous ideas, not statements of sacred import. It feels like I’m either mocking the liturgy or am just really bad at this. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket. Here’s a sample of something from the dogpile: Here it is in its entirety: There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all his cash in a bucket. I tried – I thought maybe I’d write a call to worship that is a limerick for Easter/April Fools Day, but serious words feel just plain wrong. I’ve been pondering, though, why limericks seem like a humorous form I mean, I can’t imagine writing a serious poem in limerick form. Okay, so the real challenge is not in writing a limerick, it’s in rhyming with “Nantucket” without using the F word. The smell, though, she must now obstruct it. Which is, of course, appropriate, given that I am on Nantucket, and, well…. And of course, he invites us to try our hand at it. Indeed, some scholars of the form argue that the bawdy limericks are the true limericks, and the clean ones are the lesser ones. limerick which begins, 'There once was a man from Nantucket'. He disguises it, of course, by teaching us about amphibrachic trimeter and catalectic amphibrachic dimeter, which are the external and internal lines of a limerick – all very academic, you see. For instance, the classic There was a young man from Nantucketwell, maybe you know the rest, because we’re certainly not publishing any of the versions here. their family, a snapshot of a chimpanzee wearing a pink bonnet. Columbo and the bad guy go on a Go-Karting with Bowser evening that ends with a limerick duel.Oh dear readers, it has come to this: the section on metre where Stephen Fry leads us coyly into writing limericks.
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