OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17984

limerick

/ˈlɪm(ə)ɹɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
quintilla • quintilla jocosa
A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
Take a look. That’s Buffy, Muffy, and Fluffy. Do they have anything in common other than names you could write a limerick around?
The limerick, it would appear, Is a verse form we owe Edward Lear; Two long and two short Lines rhymed, as was taught, And a fifth just to bring up the rear.
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