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Fancy writing a group limerick ?

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NanKate Thu 27-Mar-14 20:29:25

Basic Rules

5 lines
Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme.
Lines 3 and 4 rhyme
Distinctive rhythm
Usually funny

There was a Gransnetter called Polly
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Ana Sat 19-Apr-14 20:40:02

(Too many syllables in that last line - and I'm saying NO MORE on the subject!)

AlieOxon Sat 19-Apr-14 21:22:57

Think I will stay out of this.

Ana Sat 19-Apr-14 21:35:00

It's not a row, argument or nastiness! It's just a difference of opinion about the properties a limerick should have.

I've said my piece and I stand by it but it seems people's perceptions of rhythm differ, and I accept that.

Ana Sat 19-Apr-14 21:36:09

(And yes, I do realise I said I'd say no more on the subject...blush)

papaoscar Sun 20-Apr-14 03:15:44

East-er is a time for rejoicing

Nelliemoser Sun 20-Apr-14 09:38:20

So stop these concerns you are voicing,

AlieOxon Sun 20-Apr-14 10:09:42

And let's have some fun

shysal Sun 20-Apr-14 10:41:21

And pen the odd pun

Elegran Sun 20-Apr-14 10:53:49

And lets have no effin and coicing.

Nelliemoser Sun 20-Apr-14 15:21:47

Elegran (Coicing? ) It's not in my Oxford reference dictionary. I challenge you under scrabble rules. wink

papaoscar Sun 20-Apr-14 15:23:12

Suggest 'blinding' ?

Elegran Sun 20-Apr-14 16:34:59

(It rhymes with "rejoicing" and is how someone from Brooklyn would say "cursing"

As in
"Take back your mink
Take back your poils
What makes you think
I am one of those goils?")

AlieOxon Sun 20-Apr-14 16:48:43

It was fine by me!

Nelliemoser Sun 20-Apr-14 17:07:46

Right I am with it now! I will go with that, I didn't have clue what the word was supposed to mean. It goes with the effin.

Elegran Sun 20-Apr-14 17:11:13

Rhymes for *oicing are few and far between.

Nelliemoser Sun 20-Apr-14 17:35:40

It was challenging. With time to think it could have been fudged with something like boys sing.

papaoscar sets us up with these. I suspect he sits at home all day planning hard rhymes. wink

papaoscar Sun 20-Apr-14 19:42:20

Nm, as if I would!

Nelliemoser Sun 20-Apr-14 19:57:58

papaoscar's rhymes are difficult,

NanKate Sun 20-Apr-14 20:06:15

A mosquito was heard to complain,

AlieOxon Sun 20-Apr-14 20:30:59

It's that papaoscar again

Elegran Sun 20-Apr-14 21:15:17

He taxes our grey cells

MiniMouse Sun 20-Apr-14 21:52:51

With poetic death knells

Elegran Sun 20-Apr-14 22:38:59

And efforts at rhyming - in vain.

papaoscar Mon 21-Apr-14 01:52:56

Excellent!

Your rhymings just sing in my ears!

AlieOxon Mon 21-Apr-14 08:58:46

So all of us heard of the buzz

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