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How to Write a Limerick

How to Write a Limerick. Don R Moody Team Red TEC-539. Origins. Limerick poems can be traced back to the fourteenth century English history. Limericks were used in Nursery Rhymes and other poems for children.

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How to Write a Limerick

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  1. How to Write a Limerick Don R Moody Team Red TEC-539

  2. Origins • Limerick poems can be traced back to the fourteenth century English history. Limericks were used in Nursery Rhymes and other poems for children. • limericks were short, relatively easy to compose and often suggestive in nature. They were often repeated by beggars or the working classes in the pubs and taverns of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventh centuries.

  3. Definition A short sometimes vulgar, humorous poem consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables, rhyme and have the same verbal rhythm. The 3rd and 4th lines have five to seven syllables, rhyme and have the same rhythm.

  4. Example There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his gold in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

  5. Math Limerick 2 to the 4, let's review The power's not 4, that's true. The exponent is 4, With base 2, what's more, 16 is the 4th power of 2 .

  6. Rhythm of the Limerick The typical rhythm of a limerick is like this: bah-BAH bah-bah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAHbah-BAH bah-bah-BAH bah-bah-BAH

  7. Fill in the Blank True There was a young man from Peru Who dreamt he was eating his shoe He woke in the night With a terrible fright To find it was perfectly ______.

  8. Here is a helpful video

  9. Epitaphs

  10. Definition A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise the deceased or a short text honoring a deceased person, It may also be in poem verse.

  11. Epitaphs • There are not any definitive rules to epitaphs. It is a matter of choice. The decision lies with the deceased ( before they passed of course) or for the person in charge of the burial arrangements.

  12. Poetic Epitaphs • Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,To dig the dust enclosed here.Blessed be the man that spares these stones,And cursed be he that moves my bones. — William Shakespeare • Consider, friend, as you pass by: As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, you too shall be. Prepare, therefore, to follow me. — Scottish tombstone epitaph

  13. Humorous Epitaphs Here lies Lester Moore. Four slugs From a forty-four. No Les. No More. Here lays Butch. We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger But slow on the draw Here lies a man named Zeke. Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek

  14. References • http://www.imaginelearning.com/blog/index.php/2011/03/st-patricks-day-limerick-contest/ • http://www.highhopes.com/mathlimericks.html

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