Limerick Light Verse Forms Poetry

Limerick Light Verse Forms Poetry

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See Also:

- The Limerick Special Interest Group website. Includes definitions, technical and scholarly information on limericks.
- Genuine poetry written in the limerick style. Background information on this style of poetry and samples of the work of Joel D. Ash. Gateways to online books containing Poetic Limericks.
- Provides a simplified description of what makes up a limerick.
- List of print books of and on limericks, compiled by Karl Dilcher.
- A brief but insightful description of the limerick form.
- Limericks and short lines by Slava Meskhi. English, Russian and Georgian languages.
- "An introduction to the limerick and other zany rhymes made famous by Edward Lear in the 1850's." An online lesson plan aimed at creative writing classes; includes information on the history of the limerick form, as well as biographical material
- From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses. Introductory article.
- This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now nor ever, on Earth) language.
- A brief description and definition of the limerick form, along with an example.
- A daily (ribald) limerick, with an archive of previously featured limericks.

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