Julie is right. One of the joys of a limerick is bringing out a smile, not a worry over form. Thanks for keeping us unstressed over anapests. If it’s any consolation, my spellcheck doesn’t know anapests, either!
I love this, Julie! We are all plagued by procrastination but we seldom get a chuckle out of it. Thanks for making us laugh.
There was an old writer called Jules
Who followed the SoftArt club rules
Punctuation precision
and Word Count Revision
Using QuillBot and other fine tools
The birds are singing.
The monkey is swinging.
I always love their hymn.
It makes me dance to the rhythm.
I am living in paradise.
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Thank you Julie for your kind words. I am a purist who attempts to follow all the rules of the characteristics of limericks. One of my limericks was flatly refused by a publisher because it lacked the proper anapest qualities.
Comical scribblers of Kame-on-Thame
Had battle contests in rhyme.
Couplets, internal, perfect and end
Foolishly employed and round the bend,
So frazzled and distraught; they were a crime.
This is fantastic, Julie! I laughed and laughed.
Julie, this is both very clever and funny. Even the moral made me chuckle. I am just surprised the king did not order, “Off with his head.”
One finespun scrawler son from Mundone
Rhyming, conniving and refining in pun.
Christened himself a heartthrob,
Bobbed to smart hobnob
Loathed it, but having too much fun!
I am probably overdoing the internal rhyme! Apologies!
Julian, this is exceptionally clever and on point. Bravo!
This is where I would be if it was up to me! Light and airy. Good job Lotchie!
Brilliant, Jules … I mean Julian! I especially enjoyed “Punctuation precision”. More, please.
He was the Jackson Pollock lyrist;
He dripped, dropped and dribbled words queerest.
He twirled, threw and tumbled terms strangely,
His poetry unbalanced and ungainly
Shunned as a failed panegyrist.
I am not disparaging Pollock’s art methods so much as saying his parallel as a poet used such techniques to write. After all Pollock’s paintings have sold for over $140 million.
a German composer named Bach
wrote musically just for a lark
but his brilliant sonatas,
fugues, canons, toccatas
ensured that he made his Deutschmark
Thank you Margarida i enjoy limericks and rhyming verse
thank you Julie, one more in the pipeline
Writing the world’s greatest love story,
Of unrivalled romance, passion and glory,
He tripped over his ego, penned a terrible tarradiddle.
A now for money he plays the fiddle.
Moral- writers stay humble, avoid being awry.
Attaining to pen book immortal,
He wrote and wrote about abnormal
The task too demanding
He swooned disenchanting
He hated being merely mortal.
The short-order cook/rhymer, Merise,
Confused pies and lines, fried foods and verse.
Buttered rhymes, fried couplets,
Grilled poem cutlets.
Don’t order food rhymes from one perverse!
Pitiful poeter, Paerphilly
Wrote verses frilly and silly.
Asked to improve his skills,
Replied, “I lack the will!”
His girl dumped him for being nilly.