About The Word Limerick
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Limerick
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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.
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