A limerick (/ˈlɪmərɪk/ LIM-ər-ik) is a form of verse that appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century. In combination with a refrain, it...

Look up Limerick or limerick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Limerick is a city in Ireland. Limerick may also refer to: Limerick (poetry), a form of...

include the limerick, the clerihew, and the double dactyl. While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel, or thought of as poetry composed casually...

County Limerick (Irish: Contae Luimnigh) is a western county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises...

Children's music Children's song Counting-out game Fingerplay Folklore Limerick (poetry) List of nursery rhymes Oral tradition Previously Mother Goose meant...

not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. Poetry analysis is almost as old as poetry itself, with distinguished practitioners going back...

Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term for both...

Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic...

Light poetry or light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous. Light poems are usually brief, can be on a frivolous or serious subject, and often...

A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. While formats can vary...

not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry. Some of them are described below in approximate...

Chinese poetry Concrete poetry Cowboy poetry Digital poetry Epitaph Fable Found poetry Haptic poetry Imagism Libel Limerick poetry Lyric poetry Metaphysical...

'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...

referred to as stanzas. Verse in the uncountable (mass noun) sense refers to poetry in contrast to prose. Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or...

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written...

anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing for a number of reasons. For English poetry, the Georgian poetry series was trend-setting; it showed...

form of short Japanese poetry consisting of three lines. Instapoetry Tanka – classical Japanese poetry of five lines. Lied – Limerick – a kind of a witty...

"There once was a man from Nantucket" is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates often ribald rhymes...

with nine bedrooms, in a wealthy part of Limerick, the houses "built at the turn of the 20th century for Limerick's burgeoning middle class... people who...

_________. "Edward Lear's Limericks and the Reversals of Nonsense," Victorian Poetry, 29 (1988): 285–299. _________. "The Limerick and the Space of Metaphor...

County Limerick - Eigse Michael Hartnett". eigsemichaelhartnett.ie. "Irish Poetry, Literary & Arts Festival in Newcastle West, County Limerick - Eigse...

humorous in tone and employs some of the techniques of nonsense literature. Limericks are probably the best known form of nonsense verse, although they tend...

glossary of poetry terms. Accent Vedic accent Arsis and thesis: the first and second half of a foot Cadence: the patterning of rhythm in poetry, or natural...

Lecherous Limericks is the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by celebrated author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992). The book contains 100 limericks. The...

hardPressed poetry operated from Dublin, Barcelona, Eastbourne and Limerick they described themselves as "a small press which publishes poetry that you won't...

childhood in Brooklyn, New York, but focuses primarily on his life in Limerick, Ireland. It also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's...

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resources about Collaborative play writing Epic poetry Lyric poetry Narrative poetry Persona poetry "Defining Verse Drama by Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring...

the tanka, the cinquain, the quintilla, Shakespeare's Sonnet 99, and the limerick. The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal...

of counting-out games etc.), and limericks; as well as including anonymous or improvised poems. Narrative folk poetry is often characterized by repetition...