Underdog wrote:Another way to do the limerick would be one line at a time.
The person who ends the limerick would start the next one.
The first post would look like this:
There once was a fisherman’s son
And then someone would add one line and wait...
Limerick Collaboration
Limerick Collaboration
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Re: Limerick Collaboration
Here’s the recent effort:
There was a lovely lass named Sal,
Who traveled with the Carnival
She had a fine beard
There was a lovely lass named Sal,
Who traveled with the Carnival
She had a fine beard
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Re: Limerick Collaboration
There was a lovely lass named Sal,
Who traveled with the Carnival
She had a fine beard
Meticulously tiered
Who traveled with the Carnival
She had a fine beard
Meticulously tiered

Re: Limerick Collaboration
MyMindsEye wrote:There was a lovely lass named Sal,
Who traveled with the Carnival
She had a fine beard
Meticulously tiered
I see that with the collaborations, it will be more obvious when we mess up the meter and cadence AND play fast and loose with the rhymes.
Sal doesn’t rhyme with carnival, and the accent in ‘carnival’ is a little off.
Also, see if you see difference between:
“There was a lovely lass named Sal”
And:
“There once was a beauty named Sal”
And ‘Meticulously tiered’ has six syllables when ‘She had a fine beard’ has five.
It’s easier to forgive when the whole limerick is laid out by one author.
As a reminder, the cadence is ideally (with a little bit of leeway):
8 syllables
8 syllables
5 syllables
5 syllables
8 syllables
The accents should be on the ‘dum’, as in:
Ta dum ta da dum ta da dum
Ta dum ta da dum ta da dum
Ta dum ta da dum
Ta dum ta da dum
Ta dum ta da dum ta da dum
Finally, the players should be gracious and choose rhymes with plentiful choices and give a good set up like perhaps:
There once was a beauty named Sal
A carnival kind of a gal
She had a fine beard
Which wasn’t that weird
But...
I personally think this makes the challenge of it a lot of fun and the end result more satisfying. No offense... I SAID, “NO OFFENSE!”
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Re: Limerick Collaboration
There once was a beauty named Sal
A carnival kind of a gal
She had a fine beard
Which wasn’t that weird
But...She kept her hair in a pail.
There is a guy named Underdog,
A carnival kind of a gal
She had a fine beard
Which wasn’t that weird
But...She kept her hair in a pail.
There is a guy named Underdog,
Aargh!
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There is a guy named Underdog,
Put on boots and went for a Jog
Put on boots and went for a Jog

Re: Limerick Collaboration
There is a guy named Underdog,
Put on boots and went for a Jog
He noticed a bird,
Put on boots and went for a Jog
He noticed a bird,
Aargh!
Re: Limerick Collaboration
There is a guy named Underdog,
Put on boots and went for a Jog
He noticed a bird,
His heart was then stirred
Put on boots and went for a Jog
He noticed a bird,
His heart was then stirred
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Re: Limerick Collaboration
There is a guy named Underdog,
Put on boots and went for a Jog
He noticed a bird,
His heart was then stirred
By the moving sound of its song.
There once was a fellow from Borne,
Put on boots and went for a Jog
He noticed a bird,
His heart was then stirred
By the moving sound of its song.
There once was a fellow from Borne,

Re: Limerick Collaboration
There once was a fellow from Borne
He gazed on The Netherlands morn
He gazed on The Netherlands morn
I bought my friend an elephant for his room. He said, "Thanks." I said, "Don't mention it."