Meaning of LIMERICK
| Pronunciation: | | 'limurik, 'limurik
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- [n] a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
- [n] port city in southwestern Ireland
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| | See Also: | | city, Eire, Ireland, Irish Free State, metropolis, port, rhyme, urban center, verse | |
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| | Definition: | | \Lim"er*ick\, n. [Said to be from a song with the same
verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which
contains the place name Limerick.]
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 Si[`e]cle, I deem But her Journal
Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
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| | Related Terms: | | alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, English sonnet, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, Horatian ode, idyll, Italian sonnet, jingle, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, Sapphic ode, satire, sestina, Shakespearean sonnet, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay |
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