h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(Løønytünes, you're a sad, sad, sad man...)

from http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/gl-l.html#limerick
"LIMERICK
A light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one, two and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba. The limerick, named for a town in Ireland of that name, was popularized by Edward Lear in his Book of Nonsense published in 1846. "

"ANAPEST, ANAPESTIC
A metrical foot with two short or unaccented syllables followed by a long or accented syllable, as in intervene or for a while. (See an example of anapestic trimeter under Scan)
(See also Meter, Rhythm)"

"FOOT
A unit of rhythm or meter, the division in verse of a group of syllables, one of which is long or accented. For example, the line, "The boy | stood on | the burn | ing deck," has four iambic metrical feet. The fundamental components of the foot are the arsis and the thesis. The most common poetic feet used in English verse are the iamb, anapest, trochee, dactyl and spondee, while in classical verse there are 28 different feet.
The other metrical feet are the amphibrach, antibacchius, antispast, bacchius, choriamb, cretic, diiamb, dispondee, dochmius, molossus, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic and tribrach, plus two variations of the ionic, four variations of the epitrite, and four variations of the paeon. The structure of a poetic foot does not necessarily correspond to word divisions, but is determined in context by the feet which surround it. "


Clear as mud now isn't it?
;^)#
the page refered to above has links for all terms

I'm sorry I made fun of Kris
Now I'll never get a kiss
She kicked my [bleep]

(I think one question will clear up what Bruce wrote: Huh?)

I thought it was cheap


;^)#

She aimed for my head but missed

New start:
While staring blankly into space

Wonderingly vaguely 'bout lace


;^)#

My nether got moist

(I don't know if this is technically correct, but I thought it was time to lighten things up, and it seemed to work before!)

The whole world rejoiced

(BTW Changed my mind, nether is an adjective, your line would read "My under got moist")

The web-cam should've been aimed at my face

(Just borrowing from Cheddar Gorge - part 2)

Shouldn't we start a new strand? Going for 'More more limerics'.

A legendy limerick wit
said take no more
So not being a hore
She vomited on it

While waiting for a new strand,

with her dicitonary at hand

Working on scansion


;^)#

*wailing* I'm SORRY already!! *sniffle* I was having a terrible day and in a fit of crappy judgement decided to be pedantic. I'm not cut out to be a pedant! I don't have the skills for it!

I take it back. Each and every limerick and limerick line is a beautiful, living creature that should be nourished and loved. *wailing again* I'm a bad caregiver!!

(Discussion is the spice of life).

(Darn, I forgot what the limerick is, so I'll try

Listening to Hanson

(and hope it works).

Do we actually have a limerick at the moment, or just some random candidate lines lying around without a home to go to?

Yes.

Whoever 'her' was decided that scansion didn't matter and that Hanson were a really crap band.

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When taking the bus into work,

Around the stop I did lurk

As soon as it came