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Limerick

/ˈlɪməɹɪk/

A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having a 9–9–6–6–9 cadence.

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A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having a 9–9–6–6–9 cadence.

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versenoun	Poetic form in general.
poemnoun	A literary piece written in verse.
naughtyverb	Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
roguenoun	A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
rascalnoun	(often diminutively) A cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.
ottava rimanoun	(poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).
iambic tetrameternoun	A poetic meter consisting of lines with four iambic feet each, meaning the even syllable is dominant.
iambic pentameternoun	A poetic meter consisting of lines with five iambic feet each, meaning the even syllables are dominant.
terza rimanoun	(poetry) An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc.
sonnetnoun	A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
bioletnoun	(poetry) A six-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABbaBA.
ottavarimanoun	Alternative form of ottava rima. [(poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).]
long meternoun	(hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic tetrameter, usually having rhyme in the second and fourth lines.
higgledy-piggledynoun	(slang) In utter disorder or confusion; mixed up.
monk's tale stanzanoun	(poetry) An eight-line stanza with the rhyme scheme ABABBCBC.
rondeletnoun	A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables
trioletnoun	(poetry) An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter.
trimeternoun	A line in a poem having three metrical feet.
octameternoun	A line of verse containing eight metrical feet
quatrainnoun	A poem in four lines.