Thesaurus: limerick
a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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- n. a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
- 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 Siècle, I deem But her Journal Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
- 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 --
- n:100 n. port city in southwestern Ireland n. a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba