Limericks

[Anonymous No.8754202]

Hey Im interested in limerick poetry and would like to learn how to produce it as well as read some good examples of it.

Does lit have any good recommendations in this area? Also for those who write this, could you recommend a good rhyming dictionary

[Anonymous No.8754849]

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

[Anonymous No.8754857]

There once was a maid from madras
Who had the most wonderful ass
Not round and pink as you may think
But gray with long ears and ate grass

[Anonymous No.8755090]

bump for suggestions

[Anonymous No.8755116]

There is a man with a large nose
Who is loathed wherever he goes
Armed with shekels and bombs
He joins both his palms
And blames everyone else for his woes

[Anonymous No.8755339]

>>8755116
>bombs and palms rhyme

[Anonymous No.8755470]

There once was a poster on /lit/
Who couldn't write limericks for shit
So I saged his thread, and went off to bed
Fed up with with the moronic twit

[Anonymous No.8755581]

>>8754202
Has no one come across such books?

[Anonymous No.8755589]

>>8754202
edward gorey is (was) the master of the art, the modern incarnation of edward lear

[Anonymous No.8755897]

>>8755339
Yeah they do

[Anonymous No.8755951]

>>8755470

>with with
>Fucking up the scheme regardless

Wew.

[Anonymous No.8755966]

There once was a fag named OP
Whose posts were shitty and dopey
I saged his gay thread
And retired to bed
So my sister and I could get gropey

[Anonymous No.8755999]

There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.


--Boris Johnson's limerick about Pres. Erdogan

[Anonymous No.8756029]

>>8754857
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[Anonymous No.8756230]

>>8755897
>americans actually believe this

[Anonymous No.8756236]

>>8756230
>pronouncing the L
What are you, gay?

[Anonymous No.8756266]

>>8754202
Producing it is just a matter of following the form
It's a five-line poem with an A-A-B-B-A rhyme scheme
The scansion is
da DA da da DA da da DA
da DA da da DA da da DA
da DA da da DA
da DA da da DA
da DA da da DA da da DA
(it can be modified into a feminine rhyme like >>8754849 with one or more unaccented syllables at the ends of the B or especially the A lines)
The first line usually starts 'There once was a man from...' or 'There was an old man ...' (or 'young', etc)

[Anonymous No.8756847]

>>8755951
My apologies for the duplicate word. Other than that, how did I mess up the scheme?

(Sage is two syllables by the way)

[Anonymous No.8756876]

>>8756236
If you weren't retarded you'd pronounce bombs as : /bɒmz/
and palms as: /pɑːmz/
Which doesn't rhyme.

[Anonymous No.8756959]

>>8756236
>he thinks it's about the L
Hopeless

[Anonymous No.8756969]

>>8754849
I mean, this hasn't really been complemented.

This is great.

[Anonymous No.8757002]

>>8756969

it's not OC, you know

[Anonymous No.8757649]

>>8755589
Thanks for you help

[Anonymous No.8757767]

>>8756266
Thank you as well for your help as well. What makes a rhyme masculine?

Also a link to some collections of limerics for others who are interested

https://www.abebooks.com/books/nonsense-verse-edward-lear-asimov/limericks.shtml

[Anonymous No.8757838]

>>8757767

A masculine rhyme is one in which the words end with a stressed syllable, and for a feminine rhyme they end unstressed. The feminine scheme lends itself more naturally to humor

[Anonymous No.8757928]

>>8757838
Thanks for the clarification, what is a good resource to understand these basic concepts of poetry?

[Anonymous No.8759042]

Try this