In the flick of an eye she went down.
In the tub, there's the rub, cracked her crown.
"Lying nude on her own,
she lay prone, broken hand
and a foot. With a groan...."
but with grit, tried to stand,
self em-bare-assed, up she rose like a clown.
~~Judi Van Gorder
7 Lines A Cross Limerick, an invented variation on the Limerick, found in Pathways For the Poet by Viola Berg 1977.
The elements of the Cross Limerick are:
1. a septet. (7 lines).
2. metric, anapestic L1, L2 and L7 trimeter (3 metric feet) and L3,L4,L5, L6 dimeter (2 metric feet). (anapest = da da DUM)
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme aabcbca.
4. best used for witty, whimsical, bawdy themes, light verse.
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