1) City 2) Comic rhyme 3) Five-line verse 4) Humorous verse 5) Metropolis 6) Nonsense verse 7) Oft-perverse verse 8) Oft-risqué verse 9) Often-bawdy verse 10) Poem with a punch line 11) Port 12) Rhyme 13) Rhyme with a punch line 14) Seaport on the Shannon 15) Type of jingle 16) Urban center 17) Verse named for Irish town
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1) Light verse 2) Poem 3) Song 4) Verse
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- port city in southwestern Ireland
- a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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a fixed verse form appearing first in The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women (1820), popularized by Edward Lear, and rhyming aabba, where a-lines have five feet and the b-lines three feet, and where the first and last lines end with the same word (a practice dropped in the 20th century). A limerick has been defined as 'A comic poem consisting o...
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• (n.) A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as --There was a young lady, Amanda,/Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de/Si/cle, I deem/But her Journal Intime/Was what sent her papa to Uganda.//
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county borough, port, and chief town of County Limerick, west-central Ireland, occupying both banks and King`s Island of the River Shannon at the ...
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county, southwestern Ireland, in the province of Munster. Its northern boundary, with County Clare, is the River Shannon and its estuary. The River ...
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a popular form of short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant ... [1 related articles]
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Five-line humorous verse, often nonsensical, which first appeared in England in about 1820 and was popularized by English writer Edward
Lear. An example is:`There was a young lady of Riga, Who...
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A five-line closed-form poem in which the first two lines consist of anapestic trimeter, which in tu
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A fixed verse form appearing first in the history of sixteen wonderful old women (1820), popularized
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Lim'er·ick noun [ Said to be from a song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name
Limerick .] A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as --...
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Form of light verse consisting of five lines and rhymed: a-a-b-b-a. The first, second and fifth lines contain three feet while the third and fourth lines contain two feet. The form was popularised by the Victorian poet Edward Lear. Lear often used the same word at the end of the first and fifth lines e.g.
There was an old person of Dean
Who d...
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aabba.
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n] - port city in southwestern Ireland 2. [n] - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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A light, humorous style of fixed form poetry, usually of five lines and a subject matter which is silly.
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A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA, lines 1,2, and 5 rhyme together, while lines 3 and 4 rhymes togther) and a reasonably strict meter (anapestic triameter for lines 1, 2, and 5; anapestic diameter for lines 3 and 4). Limericks are almost always used for comedy, and it’s usually pretty rude comedy at that – they de...
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A five-line comic verse following the syllable pattern 8 8 6 6 8 with the rhyme scheme a a b b a. Early limericks, such as the nonsense verse of Edward Lear, repeat line 1 in line 5. However, recent verse does not always follow this model.
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noun a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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(county) County of the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Munster; county town Limerick; area 2,690 sq km/1,038 sq mi; population (2002) 175,200. The principal river is the Shannon, and towns include Abbeyfeale, Kilmallock, Newcastle West, and Rathkeale. Limerick is hilly ...
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(town) County town of County Limerick and fourth-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, on the Shannon estuary; population (2002) 87,000. The city is divided into three parts: English Town, which is the old city on King's Island (an island in the Shannon estuary); Irish T...
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Five-line humorous verse, often nonsensical, which first appeared in England in about 1820 and was popularized by English writer Edward Lear. An example is: `There was a young lady of Riga, Who rode with a smile on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger.`
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