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Limericks

A limerick is a form of poetry that consists of five lines with a rhyme scheme of AABBA. The meter is almost always anapest - unstressed (U) unstressed (U) stressed (/) - to lend the poem a singsongy quality. The content of a limerick is usually humorous, bawdy, or nonsensical in nature.

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