Let's write a Brokeback limerick! (How-to in first post)

[Kerry]

For twenty years they went on trips back of beyond
What they shared was a life-long bond
Even though their separate lives were trying
Each other, they never ceased admiring

[ifyoucantfixit]

For twenty years they went on trips back of beyond
What they shared was a life-long bond
Even though their separate lives were trying
Each other, they never ceased admiring
The dark haired man and the handsome blond

[Lynne]

For twenty years they went on trips back of beyond
What they shared was a life-long bond
Even though their separate lives were trying
Each other, they never ceased admiring
The dark haired man and the handsome blond

Nice one.

So, I just learned (red-faced here) from LauraGigs that in addition to rhyme scheme, limericks also have suggested meter!  Apologies if I was supposed to be following rules that I didn't understand before...it seems like we've been pretty lax about that, and that's all good with me...Wonder if we should start a sonnet thread?

[Kerry]

Nice one.

So, I just learned (red-faced here) from LauraGigs that in addition to rhyme scheme, limericks also have suggested meter!  Apologies if I was supposed to be following rules that I didn't understand before...it seems like we've been pretty lax about that, and that's all good with me...Wonder if we should start a sonnet thread?

That's a wonderful idea. 

[Lynne]

That's a wonderful idea. 

Then get busy, my troubadour!

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,31312.0.html

[CellarDweller]

So, I just learned (red-faced here) from LauraGigs that in addition to rhyme scheme, limericks also have suggested meter!  Apologies if I was supposed to be following rules that I didn't understand before...it seems like we've been pretty lax about that, and that's all good with me...Wonder if we should start a sonnet thread?

Perhaps we need a definition of a limerick, and an example?



The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth lines having between nine to eleven syllables and rhyming with one another, and the third and fourth having only between five to seven, and rhyming separately.


The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

[Ellemeno]

Thanks Chuck!


A young fella from Lightning Flat, WY

[Monika]

A young fella from Lightning Flat, WY
With a smile that could rouse the dying

[CellarDweller]

A young fella from Lightning Flat, WY
With a smile that could rouse the dying
ran into a Texan

[ifyoucantfixit]

             I have tried where possible to keep the right amount of syllables