Exploring Poetry - Limerick

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Welcoming you all to week 7 of " Exploring Poetry ".Every week a new prompt is published here on " Monday " and stays open until further notice .Poems on any themes selected by the respective owner should be written based only on the chosen Poetry Form.You can write and link them up or share if you already one .Good Day!

This Week's Prompt :LIMERICKS

LIMERICKS

A limerick is a funny poem with five lines.They are like Clerihew, funny poem but the rhyme pattern and rules are different from that of Clerihew. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, a famous author who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the 1800's.  This was an entire book of silly limericks.

How to write a Limerick ?

1.It is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem.

2.The rhyme pattern is A-A-B-B-A with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming.

3.Lines A-A are generally longer(six to ten syllables) than lines B-B(four to seven syllables).

4.Lines A generally have three strong beats (syllable) while the  lines B have only two beats (syllable)

4.Limericks are meant to be funny.

5.They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices.

6.The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke."

7.If you out your Limericks out loud and clap to the rhythm,it turns out to be Fun

Limerick -1

Doctor foster , perfect man went out to dine

He ate and ate all the foods that was fine

Due overeating he became

A man who was not the same

Running to and fro gasping for a toilet sign 

Limerick -2

That actress name is Ness Winslet

Who went on a voting spree in Internet

Form London to Moscow

For her forthcoming film Gaslow

She chirped and tweeted her laptop on bed 

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