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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne E. Perry)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Limericks - part 2
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 13:23:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 13:23:11 1984
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anapest - an italian meter served with dinner

An acceptable variant of the five line constraint the four line version
where the 3rd line is a quatrometer.  From Walter de la Mare (with a
few other violations as well)

	There was an old man said, "I fear
	That life, my friends, is a bubble
      Still, with all due respect to a Philistine ear,
        A limerick's best when its double."

	When they said, "But the waste
	Of time, temper, taste!"
      He gulped down his ink with cantakerous haste,
 	And chopped off his head with  a shubble.

One of the more startling examples of violating the five line constraint.

	There was a young lady from Drew
	Who ended her verse at line two.

Which of course leads to the even shorter

	There was a young man from Verdunne.


Thus endeth my lim'ricks, part two.
What next, you may ask, will I do?
   Perhaps something bawdy,
   obscene, or just nawdy.
Who knows? If I don't, how can you?  [dep]