Contest Description
What to Submit?
1. One new limerick, funny, humorous or bawdy.
2. Exact Rhymes and exact syllables counts for lines 1, 2 and 5. ( 7-10 syllables)
3. Exact Rhymes and exact syllables counts for lines 3 and 4. ( 5-7 syllables)
4. Date on bottom of your poems.
5. Please use howmanysyllables to check your poems. Please see below;
Limerick poems should have five lines with the rhythm AABBA, which is a pattern that determines the lines of the rhyme. A given letter of the alphabet represents the rhyming sound, the rhyme scheme begins with the letter A and uses a new letter for each ending sound. The form AABA indicates that the first and second and the fifth line should rhyme with each other. The third and the fourth line, on the other hand, form another pair of a rhyme scheme.
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM 7-10 syllables A
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM 7-10 syllables A
da DUM da da DUM 5-7 syllables B
da DUM da da DUM 5-7 syllables B
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM 7-10 syllables A
There will be multiple placements. Please follow 1-5 for placement consideration. Meter does help but not as important as the syllable counts in this contest.
Preparing Your Entry
Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts.
English Language
Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.
A Note to Poetry Contestants
You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests. I do not choose the order when there are multiple placements, PS does.