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POETIC LIMERICKS
Joel D. Ash describes ‘poetic limericks’ as genuine poetry written in the limerick style. My poems, he states, like limericks, use a distinctive rhyming scheme of a-a-b-b-a in which the first, second, and fifth lines of each stanza rhyme as do the third and fourth lines. My poetic limericks also utilize the unique limerick meter.
As far as I know, Joel D. Ash adds, very few people have written genuine poetry using the limerick style, perhaps due to the difficulty in making use of this complex rhyming pattern and meter.
http://www.poeticlimericks.com/#Poetic
A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are frequently witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)
While most conventional limericks are witty, humorous, and sometimes obscene, I enjoy writing poems to this form of a more serious nature and different moods and genres. The anapestic meter and rhyming of the limerick makes for beautiful poetry.
A limerick has five lines per stanza. The first, second, and fifth lines have three metrical feet (with anapestic meter – nine syllables). Lines three and four have two metrical feet (with anapestic meter – six syllables). The rhyme scheme is normally aabba. While other meters may be used in a limerick, amphibrach and anapest are the most common. Amphibrach meter is a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables, while anapest is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (one foot). The number of stanzas in a limerick is unlimited.
While many still prefer the more traditional limericks, other poets follow the pattern suggested by Joel D. Ash, using the limerick form for expressions other than wittiness, humor, or the obscene.
Following is a single stanza ‘poetic limerick’ I wrote about the wind.
Reprieves
If I listen at night, as it weaves
Through the trees and awakens the leaves,
In the wind I will hear,
If but briefly I fear,
As it whispers, the oath of reprieves.
©Larry Powers
larryp
Lawrence, Kansas
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