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Limerick Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Limerick? [n] a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba [n] port city in southwestern Ireland Synonyms \| Synonyms for Limerick: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Limerick: alba \| anacreontic \| balada \| ballad \| ballade \| bucolic \| canso \| chanson \| clerihew \| dirge \| dithyramb \| eclogue \| elegy \| English sonnet \| epic \| epigram \| epithalamium \| epode \| epopee \| epopoeia \| epos \| georgic \| ghazel \| haiku \| Horatian ode \| idyll \| Italian sonnet \| jingle \| lyric \| madrigal \| monody \| narrative poem \| nursery rhyme \| ode \| palinode \| pastoral \| pastoral elegy \| pastorela \| pastourelle \| Petrarchan sonnet \| Pindaric ode \| poem \| prothalamium \| rhyme \| rondeau \| rondel \| roundel \| roundelay \| Sapphic ode \| satire \| sestina \| Shakespearean sonnet \| sloka \| song \| sonnet \| sonnet sequence \| tanka \| tenso \| tenzone \| threnody \| triolet \| troubadour poem \| verse \| verselet \| versicle \| villanelle \| virelay See Also \| city \| Eire \| Ireland \| Irish Free State \| metropolis \| port \| rhyme \| urban center \| verse Limerick In Webster's Dictionary \Lim"er*ick\, n. [Said to be from a song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name Limerick.] A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as There was a young lady, Amanda, Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de Si[`e]cle, I deem But her Journal Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda.

Limerick Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Limerick?

[n] a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
[n] port city in southwestern Ireland

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Limerick In Webster's Dictionary

\Lim"er*ick\, n. [Said to be from a song with the same
verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which
contains the place name Limerick.]
A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2,
and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of
two feet, and rime; as

      There was a young lady, Amanda, Whose Ballades Lyriques
      were quite fin de Si[`e]cle, I deem But her Journal
      Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda.

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