Briefings
News & Politics
Arts
Life
Business & Tech
Science
Podcasts & Video
Blogs
enter the fray:
our reader discussion forum
The Fray
Browse by Tags
Sign in
Advanced
All Tags
»
NoStar
»
parody
Denny
limericks
poetic structure
White_Rabbit
Re: Gimmericks and other irregularities
The perfect limerick is all anapestic. da da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DUM da da DUM So that means I was right the first time, in all but keeping Denny's rhyme of ''Maria'' and ''urea'' with ''dysuria''. Well, it was bound to happen: your description of the limerick ...
Posted to
Poems
by
White_Rabbit
on
July 5, 2009
"Out House Story"...
''But Denny, editors are our FRIENDS...'' ;) I once knew a girl named MariaWho suffered a case of dysuria.There she'd sit on the potEvery chance that she got,And seek to discharge her urea. ------------------------------------------------------------- Well, maybe I can't think of a limerick defining a D-word just now, but my parody gene's been ...
Posted to
Poems
by
White_Rabbit
on
July 4, 2009