gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoA short drive from Limerick, Irelandlemmy.worldimagemessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1755arrow-down117
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minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down4·3 months ago whose limericks stopped at line four Bad rhythm. Should be “whose limericks would stop at line four”
minus-squareegerlach@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·3 months agoThat depends on whether you treat “limericks” as a trochee (long-short, i.e. “lim-ricks”) or a dactyl (long-short-short, i.e. “lim-er-icks”).
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoEgerlach, they once called this bard Who’d school any with whom he did spar Whether trochee or dactyl word choice was impec’ble master of prosody, unflappable.
Bad rhythm. Should be “whose limericks would stop at line four”
That depends on whether you treat “limericks” as a trochee (long-short, i.e. “lim-ricks”) or a dactyl (long-short-short, i.e. “lim-er-icks”).
Egerlach, they once called this bard
Who’d school any with whom he did spar
Whether trochee or dactyl
word choice was impec’ble
master of prosody, unflappable.