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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 ...
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 ...
Lee Gurga (born 1949), US haiku poet; Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and poet; Lars Gustafsson (1936–2016), Swedish poet, novelist and scholar; Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist and poet; Beth Gylys (born 1964), US poet and professor; István Gyöngyösi (1620–1704), Hungarian poet; Géza Gyóni (1884–1917 ...
Famed limerick writer Edward Lear wrote this example (and oddly enough, this one is also set in Quebec): There was an Old Man of Quebec, A beetle ran over his neck;
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English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, AAA; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis. [2]
This is a list of episodes from season twelve of The Debaters on CBC Radio. All season 12 episodes were hosted by Steve Patterson. At the close of season 12, a total of 360 episodes (plus four extended debates) had aired. Season 12 was split into two parts, 13 episodes in 2017, and 20 episodes in 2018.
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