The pub that my firends and I frequent has an annual St. Patrick’s day limerick contest, so last night after many beverages all sorts of limericks had been penned. Now, the standard limerick rhyme goes AABBA, but is there a type of poem that goes AABBC? My friend thought that it was a separate type, but my vote went to “poorly-written limerick”.
Any thoughts?
A very sad poet was Jenny
Her limerics weren’t worth a penny.
In technique they were sound
Yet somehow she found
Whenever she tried to write any
She always wrote one line too many.
I’ll let the artsy types in Cafe Society handle this.
Off to Cafe Society.
DrMatrix - GQ Moderator
The limerick, peculiar to English,
Is a verse form that’s hard to extinguish.
Once Congress in session
Decreed its suppression,
But people got around it by writing the last line without any rhyme or meter.
I would think a true limerick would be required to have an AABBA format, but there is nothing to stop people from writing poems or doggerel in an AABBC format.