Theme : ENGLISH LIMERICKS

1. Theme: ENGLISH LIMERICKS

2. Problem: Is there any sense in poems of nonsense?

3. What is a “Limerick”?

4. A limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense verse with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA).

5. There was an Old Man of Peru, Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.He awoke in the night In a terrible fright And found it was perfectly true!

6. The rhyme scheme of limericks.

7. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme.

8. Bid me to weep, and I will weepA While I have eyes to see; B And having none, and yet I will keep A A heart to weep for thee. B There was a Young Lady of Niger, A Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; A They returned from the ride B With the Lady inside, B And the smile on the face of the tigerA

9. The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth usually rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables.

10. Example: There was a clever old miser who tries Every method to e-co-no-mize. He said with a wink "I save gallons of ink By simply not dotting my i's"

11. The Origin of the name

12. Edward Lear

13. Edward Lear • Born - 12 May 1812Holloway, Middlesex, UK • Died - 29 January 1888 (aged75)Sanremo, Liguria, Italy • Occupation - Illustrator, Writer (poet) • Nationality - British • Ethnicity - White British • Citizenship - British, Italian • Period - 19th century • Genres - Children's literature • Literary movement - Literary nonsense

15. Variations

16. A flea and a fly in a flue, Were trapped and knew not what to do, 'Let us flee', said the fly, 'Let us fly', said the flea, So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

17. There was a young man from Japan Whose limericks never would scan. When asked why this was, He replied "It's because I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as ever I possibly can."

18. There once was a man from the sticks Who liked to compose limericks. But he failed at the sport, For he wrote 'em too short.

19. There was an old man with a beard, A funny old man with a beard He had a big beard A great big old beard That amusing old man with a beard.

20. Limericks for phonetic practice

21. That mad actor, Max Hackney-Pratts Gathered masses and masses of hats, Kept a set in his bed, Twenty-seven on his head And the balance on black plastic mats.

22. Benjamin Gregory Berry Never drinks red wine or sherry But giving him whisky Is a little bit risky: He tends to get terribly merry!

23. Is there any sense in poems of nonsense?

24. Poetry Workshop