screwy
10-16-2005, 04:54 AM
The aim of the thread is to write a limerick about the person above you.
Limericks are quite the amusing poems, as they're simple, and most often nasty. They ryming scheme goes aabba, and has a pretty rigid meter (explained shortly, sort of).
Example:
I would like to speak of sir screwy
He loves teh cock for the chewy
Puss, he hates
'Tis his fate
When he sees a girl he says 'PHOOEY!'
The first line's rhyme is 'a', which is whatever you want it to be, and the first line usually introduces a place or a person (person, in the case of this thread). Since the scheme for the first two lines is 'aa', the second line has the same rhyme as the first line ('a').
The third and fourth lines are special. First of all, for these two lines, you choose a different rhyme from 'a'. It will be 'b'. Since the scheme for these two lines is 'bb', both lines will have the same rhyme. Also, as can be seen in the example, the third and fourth line have shorter syllables. A bit hard to simplify, but suffice to say those lines are shorter. Just follow the flow of the flow of the example.
The fourth line simply goes back to the 'a' rhyme.
Enjoy.
Limericks are quite the amusing poems, as they're simple, and most often nasty. They ryming scheme goes aabba, and has a pretty rigid meter (explained shortly, sort of).
Example:
I would like to speak of sir screwy
He loves teh cock for the chewy
Puss, he hates
'Tis his fate
When he sees a girl he says 'PHOOEY!'
The first line's rhyme is 'a', which is whatever you want it to be, and the first line usually introduces a place or a person (person, in the case of this thread). Since the scheme for the first two lines is 'aa', the second line has the same rhyme as the first line ('a').
The third and fourth lines are special. First of all, for these two lines, you choose a different rhyme from 'a'. It will be 'b'. Since the scheme for these two lines is 'bb', both lines will have the same rhyme. Also, as can be seen in the example, the third and fourth line have shorter syllables. A bit hard to simplify, but suffice to say those lines are shorter. Just follow the flow of the flow of the example.
The fourth line simply goes back to the 'a' rhyme.
Enjoy.