The limerick thread.

[Dr. Dread]

Facts are for clods says Gurn
Oh, he has much to learn
Gurn you old fart
I'll match your Mozart
And raise you a Chopin Nocturne

[Dr. Dread]

Of Franco, I don't know that much
Perhaps I'm a bit out of touch
Too much time away
But you know what they say...
Sometimes that Dave's out to lunch

[ChamberNut]

MN Dave comes and goes, that you can bet
It's 3PM, why hasn't his avatar changed yet?
He creates subversives polls
In 'Fat Enders', he aims to shed those rolls,
Dave the Nomad's profile is due to reset.

[Dr. Dread]

 0:)

[Franco]

MN Dave has trouble with rhyme
Trying Lunch and Touch one time
Oh, how sad to see
Someone as smart as he
Commit so dastardly a crime

[Dr. Dread]

Of rhyming, I'm somewhat familiar
That one can use words that are similar
I did it above
I did it with love
So don't treat me like Heinrich Himmler

[Franco]

Of rhyming, I'm somewhat familiar
That one can use words that are similar
I did it above
I did it with love
So don't treat me like Heinrich Himmler

[karlhenning]

Dave's métier is mixing up words
(Though he think poetry for the birds);
For music he is booziest,
A downright enthusiast,
But he can't tell his fifths from his thirds.

[Dr. Dread]

Ahahahaha. I can't.

So these things seem to go 8-8-5-5-8.

[Dr. Dread]

...or not necessarily...

[Dr. Dread]

More like A#-A#-B#-B#-A#

[Gurn Blanston]

Friend Franco is playing with fire,
He dares to draw out a mod's ire.
But he didn't prepare
to get charred to his hair
When the Gurnatron  lit off his pyre.

[Gurn Blanston]

Ahahahaha. I can't.

So these things seem to go 8-8-5-5-8.

They MUST go 8-8-5-5-8. Rhyme 1-2 & 5 and 3 & 4.  Those are the rules.

[Dr. Dread]

Gurn's getting cranky with age
Small things can set off his rage
He seems rather grumpy
His outlook is lumpy
His sex life's a thing I can't gauge

[Dr. Dread]

They MUST go 8-8-5-5-8. Rhyme 1-2 & 5 and 3 & 4.  Those are the rules.

Oh, I think 9-9-5-5-9 is also acceptable. Or is there a rule you can show me?

[karlhenning]

So-called Limerick Studies are a tissue of Jesuitical lies . . . .

[Dr. Dread]

http://freespace.virgin.net/merrick.sheldon/limerickrules.htm

[karlhenning]

There once was a something of somewhere,
Whose what's-it was thingumbob up there.
A somewhat so frugal,
And a mystical bugle,
And, cor, I'm buggered if I remember.

[Gurn Blanston]

Oh, I think 9-9-5-5-9 is also acceptable. Or is there a rule you can show me?

Yes, you can have 9, or also 7. The important thing is that you be self-consistent. It is an anapestic beat. If you use 8 (which I usually do) you drop off the first beat of the first metric foot... well, let's not get into all that.

da-da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM. OR

da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM

[karlhenning]

You're not going to let Dave defend himself, at least, from the charge of anapesty, Gurn?