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A monthly contest for formal poetry in rhyme and meter.
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Jun 28, 2010 at 8:14am
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Re: Di the Fly (limerick: AABBA rhyme pattern)
Thanks for submitting. Not eligible.

This is not a limerick as per the usually / classically accepted definition, given below.

[Please note that the syllabic counts should be 99669.]



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www.creativestudios.com/lit/glossary2.html -
http://www.sfu.ca/~finley/discussion.html

Llimerick: a light or humorous verse form having anapestic feet [weak; weak; strong] in which lines 1, 2, and 5 have 3 feet and lines 3 and 4 have 2 feet each with aabba rhyme.
A limerick can thus be represented as:

wwS wwS wwS
wwS wwS wwS
wwS wwS
wwS wwS
wwS wwS wwS

M C Gupta
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Di the Fly (limerick: AABBA rhyme pattern) · 05-12-10 11:50am
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Re: Re: Di the Fly (limerick: AABBA rhyme pattern) · 07-21-10 10:57am
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