Lovely Limericks of Poetry Event
Summary: Write a limerick. You can even take this humor style to the next level and write it about something that happened on YWS.
How to enter: Submit your limericks in this thread. For discussions, questions, comments, concerns and so forth, use this thread. Submissions are due during this event.
Description: Write a limerick and post it to this thread. To write a limerick, all you need is the right cadence which you can get by reading limericks and mimicking the beat. Basically, make sure it rhymes a-a-b-b-a, and has the lines with the a rhyme longer than the b lines. For more information, keep reading.
Have you ever heard "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall?" We're going to write something similar! It's called a limerick, and they're the most popular poem structure for on-the-spot poets. Why? because the cadence can fit with just about anything. Let's get the whole poem down.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the kings horses,
and all the king's men,
couldn't put humpty together again.
Here is one of the most popular limericks that most people know, this is what you should follow.
There was an Old Man of Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
His daughter, called Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
To write a limerick, start with something you want to talk about and just introduce the name of it or one aspect of it. Then, introduce their vice, or the thing that is going to make this funny. Next, set up how it is going to be funny, or what actually happens in the next two, shorter lines. Finally, conclude it by making it funny. Usually this last part is what makes a limerick hard because you have to actually make a joke, but I'll be judging it, and I won't be too hard on whether it's funny or to.
The style utilizes end stops. The first two lines should be about the same length, and have complete stops at the end. The last three lines are usually all one sentence broken up into three parts with the last part of the last sentence being as long as the the first two sentences had been in length. That might sound confusing, but take a look at these examples, and you should be able to hear the cadence.
Shadow Poetry: Limerick This one explains how to make a limerick at the top.
Poetry through the Ages: Limerick The explanation on this one is on the next page.
Kidzone: Limerick Another explanation of how to write them, and examples.
Poem Hunter: Limerick This is a list of all Limericks on Poem Hunter
Judging: The poems will be judged based on how limericky the limerick is. I will be checking the look of the poem, and see who gets the best results, so focus on humor and story over syllables and rhymes. It has to look like a limerick, and sound like a limerick.
There once was a judge named Aley
Who wanted a limerick quite badly
she wrote one down
and peddled it around
until the Olympians came gladly!
Who wanted a limerick quite badly
she wrote one down
and peddled it around
until the Olympians came gladly!
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