Ye Olde Gothick Limericks

[SKot]

Limericks. A fine literary tradition, no?

However, a good limerick is rare. This is the thread where you get to try your hand at it. It's also the thread where we tell you how to write a better limerick and what you may be doing wrong.

Shall we?


On a forum called gothic dot net,
There's a few spooky kids that I've met.
They think that they're gothic
'Cause they shop at Hot Topic,
But they're poseurs, I'm willing to bet.


Your turn.

--SKot

[Mir]

This thread sure does suck balls,
Much like our never ending malls,
Yet to it, post I must,
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
This heap of ignorant trash appals.

--

No disrespect to Skot. This just flowed out of its own accord.

[Clockwork]

I am the mighty god of the flame
Hephaestus, that is my name
My nose can shoot fire
And my friends oft admire
It's too bad my ass does the same.

[BlackButterfly]

Hmmm... can I do this?


Two mallgoths at a club saw a creature,
And one said, "He has familiar features;
He has boots with hardware,
And those spikes in his hair
But I think that's our chemistry teacher!"

Hey, I did it!

WRONG FUCKING WRONG!

Stop now damnit!!

Let me give a quick lesson on limericks!


Limericks are built like this:

The rhyme scheme is obvious:

A
A
B
B
A

But, the meter is where you guys are ****** this.

The meter is like this: (O = Stressed U = Unstressed)

U-O-U-U-O-U-U-O
U-O-U-U-O-U-U-O
U-O-U-U-O
U-O-U-U-O
U-O-U-U-O-U-U-O

The limerick HAS to be in meter, now you can expand each line by about one more anapest, or: U-U-O

An amphibrach is two unstressed inside of two stressed syllables, which is what msot of the meter is, or it can be seen as anapests.

Fortunately for you guys the last syllable is stressed so a brevis in longo comes into play.

Brevis in longo: is the phenomenon in classical meter that a short syllable at the end of a line can be counted as long.

So a line like:

The water was great but an indignantly

You see what I mean? The ly is normally unstresed, but since it's the last word of the line your breath stops there as it would on a stress to gather for the next word, thus creates a long syllable.

This makes writing limericks much easier since the last word can be nearly anyone you want it to be.

Now that you know, just say the limericks outloud in the METER they were supposed to be in.

If it sounds weird, then change it.

Just do this, rearrange the order you say the words.

Bike the
the bike

See which sounds right.

The first obviously, so now you know bike is more stressed than the word the (but what word isn't?).

Onto writing limericks we go...I'll be back with something soon.

[BlackButterfly]

My my... touchy aren't we?!? But thanks, I guess. I'll try again...

::racks brains::

...

This may take a while.

Hey, ::tugs shirt sleeve::

...are limericks always supposed to be funny, or can they NOT be funny?

They can be either or, most are funny, they have a nice jingle to them so it's hard to make them somber. :P

[Tanachiouz]

There where some goths ona site.
Who where limericking with all of thier might.
But it was quite lame.
As it all seemed the same.
So i posted mine for a skite.

[Spooky.purple]

There was a young gothling from Rome,
The gothest of goths ever known.
He'd go to the park,
And skulk in the dark
Till dinner, when mum drove him home.

Boom boom.