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The Diet ---
Skin is the best part of a nugget
Kentucky cooling in the bucket
Slush Puppies to chase
Forming my dietary base
Worrying about my weight ..... f(orget) ‘t!
Please see the About section for further notes regarding Limericks.
4 Jan 2013
Please note that this poem was run up in a flash and not accurate in so far as meter is concerned - check the date it was written: I was still recovering from all the work over the festive season... :-) Here follows an update for the purist among you:
Skin is the best part of a nugget
Kentucky now cooling in bucket
Slush Puppies to chase
Forms dietary base
Worrying about my weight ..... f(orget) ‘t!
Written in amphibrachic meter: In other words, how I speak and where the stresses fall naturally for my speach patern.
Lines 1, 2 and 5: */*; ending with a feminine syllable
Lines 3 and 4: truncated to 5 syllable, ending in masculine syllable: */*l*/
Per my notes in the About section: "In other words, it’s got nine syllables to the long lines and six to the short ones, although it is not uncommon to leave a syllable out."
FROM A PAGE DEDICATED TO THE CORRECT WRITING OF LIMERICKS:
The classic limerick is an anapestic trimeter of five lines with the rhyming scheme AABBA.
It is possible, although not the classic form, to replace all the anapests with amphibrachs,
but they cannot be mixed.
(The anapest [or anapaest] is a beat of UUS [Unstressed-Unstressed-Stressed] -
not to be confused with a dactyl [SUU] which should not be used in limericks.
The amphibrach is a beat of USU.)
There are three beats in the first, second and fifth lines of a limerick
and two in the third and fourth:-
Diddy-DUM diddy-DUM diddy-DUM
Diddy-DUM diddy-DUM diddy-DUM
Diddy-DUM diddy-DOM
Diddy-DUM diddy-DOM
Diddy-DUM diddy-DUM diddy-DUM
An extra syllable or a syllable fewer may sometimes be tolerated
if all the lines with the same rhyme have the same structure.
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