Without any disrespect, let’s end with a limerick about a funeral.Ī silly young man from Clyde / In a funeral procession was spied / When asked, “Who is dead? / He giggled and said / “I don’t know I just came for the ride.
There was a young woman named Kite / Whose speed was much faster than light / She set out one day / In a relative way / And returned on the previous night. Don’t worry, I’ll keep it above board (and above the belt). Here are a few more examples from the internet. For spoken-word performers, “limericks are as simple to think up and memorize as they are to write”. On the website “Poetry through the Ages” limericks are described as fun to create and “delightfully entertaining”. “There once was a man from Nantucket / Who kept all his cash in a bucket / But his daughter, named Nan / Ran away with a man / And as for the bucket, Nantucket.” There once was a man from Peru, Whose limericks stopped at line two. The earliest published version apparently dates back to 1902. Very-rude-limericks 1/4 Downloaded from stats. ago Jesus, I had no idea it was that bad haha. He said, with a grin, as he wiped off his chin, 'If my ear were a cunt I could fuck it.' Sorry so vulgar, but there it is. (Wikipedia.) The opening line is so well known that it, alone, has been used as a stand-alone joke, implying upcoming obscenities.īut there are “clean” Nantucket limericks as well. ago There once was a man from Nantucket, with a dick so long he could suck it. The protagonist in the obscene versions is “typically portrayed as well-endowed and hypersexualized”. “There once was a man from Nantucket” is the opening line for many of these poems, in which the name of the island creates rhymes and puns, often obscene. Nantucket, for some reason, is indelibly associated with raunchy limericks. Limerick expert, Don Marquis, identified three types of limericks: “Limericks to be told when ladies are present limericks to be told when ladies are absent but clergymen are present and LIMERICKS.” Limericks are described as “often humorously indecent”. But when I read about her funeral last week in the city of Limerick, I was triggered to revisit that famous (or infamous) form of poetry that got its name from this Irish city. The death of the Cranberries’ singer, songwriter, and musician, Dolores O’Riordan, is far removed from anything funny. Limerick writers may want to target their poems to magazines that focus on rhyming poems or humor.Cranberries' singer, songwriter, and musician, Dolores O'Riordan To get a limerick published, it will have to be especially strong in both content and technique. Like most forms of rhyming poetry, limericks may be hard to place. This limerick gave rise to multiple versions, as there are many ways to rhyme with “Nantucket”-and not all of them appropriate for mixed company!Īnd the most important part of any good limerick? A great punchline! This famous limerick appeared in Princeton University’s humor magazine Princeton Tiger in 1902 and details the bad luck of an unfortunate man from Nantucket: (Originally published in Tommy Thumb’s Songbook in 1744.) Here’s one you may recall-and probably didn’t even realize it was a limerick!
Limericks tend to be popular in children’s literature. Here’s a limerick on the state of novels by classic sci-fi author H.G. Though the limerick has a reputation for tackling frivolous, humorous subject matter, even the most well-known authors have had fun with the form.
With anapest, the leading few words or syllables are short, and the final syllables are usually longer and more stressed. Limericks are written using the anapest rhythm/metering system. The third and fourth lines also rhyme, creating a total rhyme scheme of AABBA.
Typically, a limerick is just five short lines with the first, second, and fifth lines rhyming. Since then, limericks have woven their way into literature and the hearts of many amused readers. Lear’s A Book of Nonsense featured several limericks accompanied by related illustrations. Limericks came into mainstream popularity during the mid-1800s thanks to author and poet Edward Lear. The oldest discovered text in the limerick format was a Latin prayer written sometime during the thirteenth century. Often humorous, sometimes naughty, yet always entertaining, limericks are believed to have originated in (no, not in Nantucket-but we’ll get to that) Ireland’s County of Limerick. There was an Old Man of Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket His daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And, as for the bucket, Nantucket.
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