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Rhythm and Rhyme Schemes

Discover the captivating world of Limericks, exploring rhythm, rhyme schemes, and the art of crafting humorous and clever five-line poems with a touch of crudeness. Learn about syllable patterns, rhyme schemes, and the history behind these amusing verses.

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Rhythm and Rhyme Schemes

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  1. Rhythm and Rhyme Schemes …and the wonderful world of Limericks

  2. Rhythm • The pattern the words and syllables make • “The beat” • Made up of unstressed and stressed syllables • Unstressed syllables are marked with a small “u” and stressed syllables are marked with a “/”

  3. Iambs • Also known as “feet” • One Iamb is one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable • NOT ALL RHYTHMS USE IAMBS!!!

  4. Rhyme • Words that have similar ending sounds • Near rhymes usually have a similar vowel sound - orange & porridge

  5. Rhyme Scheme • The order in which the last word in each line of a stanza rhyme with other last words in each line of the stanza • Marked by lower-cased letters (same letter=rhyming words)

  6. Limericks • Five-line poem • Humorous and usually crude • First published in Ireland in the 1840s • Rhythm: u//u//u// - u//u//u// - u//u/ - u//u/ - u//u//u// OR u/uu/uu/ - u/uu/uu/ - u/uu/ - u/uu/ - u/uu/uu/ • Rhyme scheme: aabba

  7. Hickory, Dikory, Dock Hickory, dikory, dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one The mouse ran down Hickory, dikory, dock

  8. Example 2 There was an old man from Peru, u/uu/uu/ who dreamed he was eating his shoe. u/uu/uu/ He awoke in the night u/uu/ with a terrible fright, u/uu/ and found out that it was quite true. u/uu/uu/

  9. About A Certain Limerick Writer A limerick writer of wonder u//u//u// Pens humor he brews from Down Under. u//u//u// When he sends a zinger u//u// His joke seems to linger u//u// Exploding like lightening and thunder. u//u//u//

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