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  2. 7 Famous Limerick Examples That Will Inspire You to Write ...

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    The post 7 Famous Limerick Examples That Will Inspire You to Write Your Own appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... Limericks, a form of humorous poetry that’s been making us laugh for hundreds ...

  3. Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner by Walter Crane in the limerick collection "Baby's Own Aesop" (1887). The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three ...

  4. There once was a man from Nantucket - Wikipedia

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    The poem has become a staple of American humor.It is often used as a joking example of fine art, with the vulgarity providing a surprising contrast to an expected refinement, such as in the 2002 film Solaris, when George Clooney's character mentions that his favorite poem is the most famous poem by Dylan Thomas that starts with "There was a young man from Nantucket"; or Will & Grace season 8 ...

  5. Limerick - Wikipedia

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    A limerick is a type of humorous verse of five lines with an AABBA rhyme scheme: the poem's connection with the city is obscure, but the name is generally taken to be a reference to Limerick city or County Limerick, [57] sometimes, particularly to the Maigue Poets, and may derive from an earlier form of nonsense verse parlour game that ...

  6. Lecherous Limericks - Wikipedia

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    Lecherous Limericks [1] [2] is the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by celebrated author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992). The book contains 100 limericks. The book contains 100 limericks. The first limerick in the collection is:

  7. List of Irish ballads - Wikipedia

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    "The Station of Knocklong" – song about the rescue of Seán Hogan by his colleagues from the Third Tipperary Brigade with the assistance of the East Limerick Brigade, from a guarded train in May 1919. [41] "The Lonely Woods of Upton" - ballad about the Upton train ambush, a number one in the Irish Singles Chart for Seán Dunphy in 1969. [42]

  8. Quintain (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Quintain (poetry) 6 languages. Deutsch; ... Examples include the tanka, the cinquain, the quintilla, Shakespeare's Sonnet 99, and the limerick. Examples

  9. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry.