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05/15/2005 09:30:24 AM · #126 |
Whilst taking a trip through Sweden,
Jacko entered the Garden of Eden.
He ate bad fruit,
And shot Eve in the nude.
while the thornes stung her till she's bleedin'
my first try at an english limerick..
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05/15/2005 09:36:14 AM · #127 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
hehe, back to DPC-themed limericks...
A voter came up with a trick
Of making comments real quick,
But they were all deleted -
His 'Comments made' list depleted -
Ninety times he'd written: "Nice pic"
Another voter thought he was hot.
He didn't care about 'Helpful' or not.
But when it came to the crunch,
It was just a bunch
Of "Wow!", "How...?" and "Nice shot!" |
hahaha that one was good |
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05/15/2005 10:02:55 AM · #128 |
Thanks, Fetor. I've had fun with the limericks today.
But now, here's a challenge. I've had trouble with the last line and I must go to bed now. Anyone game to try?
He's known as Wally or Waldo,
A person who hides in the photo.
The challenge, it states:
Just Waldo, no mates -
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(I thought of defying rhyming convention by adding, "But don't make him too obvious!") |
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05/15/2005 10:07:22 AM · #129 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Thanks, Fetor. I've had fun with the limericks today.
But now, here's a challenge. I've had trouble with the last line and I must go to bed now. Anyone game to try?
He's known as Wally or Waldo,
A person who hides in the photo.
The challenge, it states:
Just Waldo, no mates -
....
(I thought of defying rhyming convention by adding, "But don't make him too obvious!") |
Amid many, you'll find Waldo solo. ;O) |
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05/15/2005 10:17:18 AM · #130 |
Joey is one crazy guy,
Jacko sure does love his fly,
Heida is cool,
Pique breaks all the rules,
Mad-D left without saying bye.
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05/15/2005 10:37:53 AM · #131 |
A challenge comes down on the site,
I think what to enter all night,
From dusk until Dawn,
I sit on the lawn,
And wonder if I̢۪ve lost my sight.
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05/15/2005 10:39:25 AM · #132 |
I try and I try to win,
Again and again and again,
Nothing I do,
Will give me that blue,
So pass me that shot of gin.
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05/15/2005 10:58:51 AM · #133 |
he wanted to take a picture of a car
the job required a DSLR
but his wallet was thin
he's using the point and shoot agian |
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05/15/2005 11:05:41 AM · #134 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Thanks, Fetor. I've had fun with the limericks today.
But now, here's a challenge. I've had trouble with the last line and I must go to bed now. Anyone game to try?
He's known as Wally or Waldo,
A person who hides in the photo.
The challenge, it states:
Just Waldo, no mates -
....
(I thought of defying rhyming convention by adding, "But don't make him too obvious!") |
"Or Dorothy, perhaps, but no ToTo."
Robt.
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05/15/2005 11:35:45 AM · #135 |
...Just try finding him pronto.
I know it's weak... but this is all I can come up with at this time.
Ray |
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05/15/2005 11:53:17 AM · #136 |
maybe I can do one!
digital cameras are such a delight
we can see our photos the very same night
delete out the bad
and edit the good
but I still finish halfway, try as I might.
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05/15/2005 12:49:23 PM · #137 |
How long this thread does continue,
I guess it was long overdue,
composing our verse,
in meter so terse,
each other we're trying to outdo
But the pro has us all on the ropes
looking quite like poetical dopes
with a five stanza try
while we just sit by
that bear crushed all of our hopes.
Club comes to the rescue with wit
Kavey adds just a bit
Jacko's masterpiece
not done til next week?
and Mav is just full of ... it.
So back to our photos we go
go vote, go comment and so
the site shall prosper
creative arts foster
and together (even with bear) we shall grow.
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05/15/2005 12:52:59 PM · #138 |
To an end, all good things must come...
A difficult concept for some.
We continue to rhyme,
Keep wasting our time,
until all of our brain cells are numb. ;o) |
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05/15/2005 12:57:31 PM · #139 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
How long this thread does continue,
I guess it was long overdue,
composing our verse,
in meter so terse,
each other we're trying to outdo
But the pro has us all on the ropes
looking quite like poetical dopes
with a five stanza try
while we just sit by
that bear crushed all of our hopes.
Club comes to the rescue with wit
Kavey adds just a bit
Jacko's masterpiece
not done til next week?
and Mav is just full of ... it.
So back to our photos we go
go vote, go comment and so
the site shall prosper
creative arts foster
and together (even with bear) we shall grow. |
Hey.. what about me!??!?!
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05/15/2005 01:08:14 PM · #140 |
I sit here with no recognition
no keys in the brainy ignition
I've spent all my time
sold my soul for a rhyme
put myself on the road to perdition
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05/15/2005 01:14:53 PM · #141 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
The meter for limerick verse
Is eight or nine beats, rather terse
The next two have five
And then we revive
The eight or nine seen in the first |
That's very nicely done, and you're on the right track for a strict limerick, but your confusing "beat" with "syllable"; technically, a pure limerick is tetrameter/tetrameter/dimeter/dimeter/tetrameter rhyming aabba. A strict tetrameter is 8 syllables with 4 beats and a dimeter is 4 syllables with 2 beats. Yours qualifies admirably in that regard.
There are, however, 3-syllable poetic feet, notably the anapest and the dactyl. The most common poetic feet are iambs and trochees; dah-DUM and DUM-dah. The anapest is dah-dah-DUM, and the dactyl is DUM-dah-dah, sometimnes affectionately referred to as the "galloping foot."
The dimeter lines in a Limerick typically have an anapest in them, and thus they often stretch to 5 syllables from the nominal 4, while the tetrameters will often have one or two 3-syllable feet, thus running to 9 or 10 syllables, but realistically this is not a requirement of Limerick writing; history has shown us a more malleable form than that.
Interestingly, your first line is actually trimeter: the ME/ter for LIM/erick VERSE, with only 3 feet and 3 beats: iamb, anapest, anapest. The second line is even more interesting from a scansion perspective: is EIGHT / or nine BEATS, / RAther / TERSEx : what you have here is iamb, anapest, trochee, tailless trochee, with the second syllable of the last foot elided (a common device). So where you'd expect 9 syllables out of a tetrameter line with an anapest in it, you still have the nominal tetrameter length of 8 syllables here.
More than youw anted to know, I'm sure. The main thing is, if it trips off the tongue (and yours does), then it works. Prosody is after the fact; as long as it's lonf, long, short, short, long and rhymes aabba, it will pass as a Limerick. Many limericks are written with pentameter for the long lines, and quite a few with trimeter short lines as well.
Robt. |
bear music writes a long explanation
of the details of limerick creation
but take no offense
or just call me dense
but it's too damn much information!
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05/15/2005 01:39:16 PM · #142 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
Hey.. what about me!??!?! |
lol Sorry dood. What about kpriest, laurie and Fetor and Loki? lol
I couldn't fit everyone and some of those I mentioned I know the best.
Artyste didn't fit in that limerick
so he thought he would call out poor mavrik
"hey what about me?"
he said sympathetically
Mav said "this do the trick?"
M
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05/15/2005 01:39:57 PM · #143 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
Originally posted by Artyste:
Hey.. what about me!??!?! |
lol Sorry dood. What about kpriest, laurie and Fetor and Loki? lol
I couldn't fit everyone and some of those I mentioned I know the best.
Artyste didn't fit in that limerick
so he thought he would call out poor mavrik
"hey what about me?"
he said sympathetically
Mav said "this do the trick?"
M |
*snort*
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05/15/2005 02:26:23 PM · #144 |
We hear you! We feel your pain! Poor Glen!
You're tops on our list of misunderstood men.
But for this sort of party
you're too damned arty:
as with your pictures, so with your pen!
Robt.
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05/15/2005 03:09:36 PM · #145 |
I would rather go to jail
I would even rather not post bail
I know I could smell
My nose knows to tell
A thousand free hours is not worth it if you try AOL!
(Sorry AOL people :-)
Hows that? I just seen a aol commercial and was thinking after I read through after my last post about giving this a try again...
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05/15/2005 05:34:12 PM · #146 |
In the SELF PORTRAIT challenge of late,
Ol' Robt. did think he would skate.
"I'm a poet", quoth he;
"The voters will see!"
but a thorn-drop they would not equate!
(Hey just kidding now Robert!) |
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05/15/2005 05:37:45 PM · #147 |
"Cats and dogs are my specialty",
Claimed Clarmore, a recent newbie,
Then she melted my 'puter
With a hand on a hooter.
Now her pets are a favorite for me! |
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05/15/2005 06:30:58 PM · #148 |
me! me! i wanna play!
i take photos with noise and high grain
but the voters are truly a pain
they like flower props
and all water drops
i really just find it quite lame
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05/15/2005 06:31:59 PM · #149 |
i currently live with no kitchen
for my remodeling bug was an-itchin'
now i'm living in hell
eating just taco bell
and my friends are all sick of my bitchin'
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05/15/2005 06:39:39 PM · #150 |
there once was a guy, nico_blue
who got bored and had nothing to do
so he stripped off his clothes
and started to pose
soon i'm sure we will see his buns too
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