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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 ...
The humor usually comes in the final line, with a sudden reversal or twist, wordplay, or twisted rhyme. When Lear was writing, the last line was often the same as the first apart from this twist ...
A Czech variant, The Four Brothers, was translated by A. H. Wratislaw. [11] Wratislaw himself wrote that the Czech tale "[bore] an advantageous comparison with Grimm’s tale of the ‘Four Accomplished Brothers". [12] Yolando Pino-Saavedra included a variant, "The Five Brothers," in Folktales of Chile. [13]
2 Subsequent limerick books by Asimov. ... (1920–1992). The book contains 100 limericks. The first limerick in the collection is: ... "The Sign of the Four", ...
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ ˈ l ɛ f ən. j uː /; [1] [2] 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. [3]
The horse Bayard carrying the four sons of Aymon, miniature in a manuscript from the 14th century. The Four Sons of Aymon (French: [Les] Quatre fils Aymon, Dutch: De Vier Heemskinderen, German: Die Vier Haimonskinder), sometimes also referred to as Renaud de Montauban (after its main character) is a medieval tale spun around the four sons of Duke Aymon: the knight Renaud de Montauban (also ...
The Brothers Grimm noted its similarity to the Italian The Goat-faced Girl and the Norwegian The Lassie and Her Godmother. [2] They also noted its connection to the forbidden door and tell-tale stain of Fitcher's Bird. [2] Other tales that make use of these elements are Bluebeard and "In the Black Woman's Castle". [3]