The World's Best Dirty Limericks

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Nor does he seem to use any alliteration or internal rhyming, devices that can add a little something extra to the limerick.

But this year they came up a little dry and given today is all about having a bit of a laugh we had to reach deep into the archives for something a little different. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.It’s easy to dismiss such questions as naïve, but the truth is that everyone, poets and poetry lovers included, occasionally entertains the feeling: a gathering annoyance with poetry’s indirection, its saying while not quite saying. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. I feel as confident about the lastingness of Lear’s owl and pussycat as I do of Tennyson’s kraken or eagle, of Lear’s Uncle Arly as of Tennyson’s Ulysses. This definitive collection of the world’s rudest, lewdest limericks will perhaps finally bestow respectability upon stanzas long venerated in oral tradition. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

All three of the A lines must rhyme with each other, and the two B lines must also rhyme with each other. Lack of word play: One key element of good limericks is the word play, including puns and double entendre. They are mourning lost youth’s lost illusions, and with this realization the poem broadens until it encompasses all of us in our aging bodies, including one melancholic elderly poet. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

Some of his creations strike me as just as assured of immortality as those of his great hero, Tennyson.

Still, poetry is a tricky enterprise, routinely upending generalizations that would contain or confine it. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. One of the reasons why the genre of the extremely brief short story in prose, the short short, interests me so little is that, to my mind, poetry does this sort of thing so much better.