Happy Limerick Day

In today's post :-

Happy International Limerick Day
Limerick Facts
A Limerick
Random Joke
Friday's Advice Column with Anne Tandek

Happy International Limerick Day

Book of Nonsense

Limerick Day, also sometimes called National Limerick Day honours the birthday of Edward Lear, born in 1812, Lear popularized this form of poetry in his 1846 book called A Book of Nonsense.

It is believed that the term limerick to refer to this specific genre of poetry comes from the city of Limerick, Ireland.

5 Lines & AABBA Scheme

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.

Humorous Situations

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 arse

And his nuts got covered with weeds.

Random Joke of the Day

I poured some water over a duck's back yesterday. He didn't care.

Friday'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 concertreption,
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 anonimity,
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

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