Limericks

In today's post :-


Limerick Facts
A Limerick
Today's Advice Column with Anne Tandek
Random Joke of the Day
Finish with a Song

k of Nonsense

A Scheme

A Limerick is a genre of poetry that traditionally has 5 lines and has an AABBA rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes in a poem. To identify a poem's rhyme scheme, each line is designated with a letter. Lines that share a letter rhyme have words at the end that rhyme with each other. This means that in a limerick, which has an AABBA rhyme scheme, the words at the end of the first, second and fifth sentences rhyme, while the words at the end of the third and fourth sentence rhyme with each other.

Traditionally, the first line of a limerick introduced a person and a place and the rest of the poem described a humorous and often times obscene situation involving the subject or the place.

How to Celebrate?

• Celebrate Limerick Day by reading some of Lear's limericks. Also, check out other poets' limericks as well.
• Write your own limericks and share them with your family and friends.

Facts About Limericks

Nobody knows for sure why limericks are named limericks. 

An early example of a poem which resembles a limerick was written by Queen Elizabeth I. 

‘The Doubt of Future Foes’, written in around 1571, Elizabeth (who reigned from 1558 until 1603) Mary Queen of Scots: 

‘The daughter of debate, 

that eke discord doth sowe, 

Shal reape no gaine where

 formor rule hath taught

stil peace to growe’. 

The rhythm and basic form, if not the rhyme scheme, anticipate the modern limerick.

There’s a limerick in Shakespeare’s Othello. 

Written around 1604, Iago sings a drinking song which he claims he heard in England:

And let me the canakin clink, clink; 

And let me the canakin clink: 

A soldier’s a man;

A life’s but a span; 

Why then let a soldier drink.

Edward Lear made the form famous in the nineteenth century. 

One of the best-known facts about limericks is that Edward Lear wrote them. In his 1846 Book of Nonsense.

A Limerick ......

A clever young fellow from Leeds

Stupidly swallowed a package of seeds.

Great tufts of fine grass

Sprouted out of his @rse

And his nuts got covered with weeds.

Today's Advice Column :-

Hello everyone, my name is Anne Tandek, I have been a specialist in giving advice since
I was three months. I remember, at that time, advising my Mummy and Daddy on contraception,
I wanted to be an only child...

This week I've had a letter from a young lady from Essex, Obviouly, I want to conserve he anonymity,
so I won't tell you her name is, Hope Ingforit..

Dear Anne,

I have terrible problem with my fake tan.

I apply it every morning with makeup trowel, but if  I go out in the rain, it runs.

I end up with tan running down my face.

With my lovely pound shop blonde extensions I end up looking like a pint of Guinness.

Can you help?

Love Hope Tngforit

Dear Essex girl,

Yes, I can help.

Simply pop down to your local Q and B and buy yourself some
"Curprenol" or any such waterproof fence stainer.

I believe they come in several "tan colours, I suggest "Mahogany"

One application and I guarantee you'll be waterproof for at least
5 years..

Your's Anne

Random Joke of The Day

A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says: "five beers please."

Finish with a Song

Given the theme this is U2 with ..With or Without You,

released in 1987.