# Shakespearean Limericks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2000, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574 "2000-10-27T07:46:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574/1 "2000-10-27T07:46:06Z")
As stofsky noted in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43584), Shakespeare’s great limericks are often forgotten by those who wish to present him as an author of high literature. What’s your favorite Shakespearean limerick? Mine is: My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun, And many would say she has quite a large bum. Her voice is quite fragile, And she’s not very agile, But to me she is second to none! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574/2 "2000-10-28T01:09:01Z")
To be or not, that is the query Quoth the Dane who’s so glum and so dreary. Though he curses the fates, he just waits and he waits. That he’s hot for his mom is one theory. Countrymen, Romans and Friends! Caesar’s met the cruelest of ends. He was stabbed in the back (a political act). Twas good or twas bad? That depends. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574/3 "2000-10-28T02:41:47Z")
Uh, I think you guys should look up the definition of a limerick. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574/4 "2000-10-28T09:28:29Z")
**Limerick** : a light or humorous verse form of 5 chiefly anapestic verses of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of 3 feet and lines 3 and 4 are of 2 feet with a rhyme scheme of _aabba_ Not quite sure what you’re talking about. I may have an extra unaccented syllable here and there, but my metrical feet are fine, and if you’re going to be that much of a stickler than “There once was a man from Nantucket” doesn’t even count. Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574/5 "2000-10-28T10:50:18Z")
Wow, someone else started a thread because of me. A nice one, that is. I’ll have to dig out my Bill and come up with something for it, but it’s too damned early right now. I think that RChuck’s point is that limericks should be dirty in their purest form. ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574/6 "2000-10-28T18:29:45Z")
Limerick 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Taketh away the tie that binds For bondage is neater If it makes a hard peter Just remember to close up the blinds ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespearean-limericks/38574/7 "2000-10-29T10:26:10Z")
> [@](#): > > I think that RChuck’s point is that limericks should be dirty in their purest form Fair enough: What light through yon window breaketh? Tis the jailbait for whom my heart acheth. So I’ll pull out my boner and ask Miss Verona “Would Juliet me make your quim quaketh?”