How to Write a Limerick

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ORIGINS Limerick poems can be traced back to

the fourteenth century English history. Limericks were used in Nursery Rhymes and other poems for children.

limericks were short, relatively easy to compose and often suggestive in nature. They were often repeated by beggars or the working classes in the pubs and taverns of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventh centuries.

DEFINITION A short sometimes vulgar, humorous poem consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables, rhyme and have the same verbal rhythm. The 3rd and 4th lines have five to seven syllables, rhyme and have the same rhythm.

EXAMPLE

There once was a man from NantucketWho kept all his gold in a bucket.

But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

MATH LIMERICK

2 to the 4, let's review The power's not 4, that's

true. The exponent is 4,

With base 2, what's more, 16 is the 4th power of 2 .

RHYTHM OF THE LIMERICK

The typical rhythm of a limerick is like this:bah-BAH bah-bah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAH bah-bah-BAH

FILL IN THE BLANKThere was a young man from Peru

Who dreamt he was eating his shoe He woke in the night With a terrible fright

To find it was perfectly ______. True

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EPITAPHS

DEFINITIONA commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise the deceased or a short text honoring a deceased person, It may also be in poem verse.

EPITAPHS There are not any definitive rules to

epitaphs. It is a matter of choice. The decision lies with the deceased ( before they passed of course) or for the person in charge of the burial arrangements.

POETIC EPITAPHS Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,

To dig the dust enclosed here.Blessed be the man that spares these stones,And cursed be he that moves my bones.

— William Shakespeare Consider, friend, as you pass by: As you

are now, so once was I. As I am now, you too shall be. Prepare, therefore, to follow me.

— Scottish tombstone epitaph

HUMOROUS EPITAPHSHere lies Lester Moore.

Four slugs From a forty-four.No Les. No More.Here lays Butch.

We planted him raw.He was quick on the trigger

But slow on the drawHere lies a man named Zeke.

Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek

REFERENCES http://www.imaginelearning.com/blog/in

dex.php/2011/03/st-patricks-day-limerick-contest/

http://www.highhopes.com/mathlimericks.html