A Limerick uses rhyme. Use the poems below to compare and contrast yourself.
STAR
by Kaitlyn Guenther
There once was a wonderful star
Who thought she would go very far
Until she fell down
And looked like a clown
She knew she would never go far
The Sidewalk Racer
or On the Skateboard
Lillian Morrison
Skimming
an asphalt sea
I swerve, I curve, I
sway, I speed to whirring
sound an inch above the
ground; I’m the sailor
and the sail, I’m the
driver and the wheel
I’m the one and only
single engine
human auto
mobile.
Compare and Contrast Limerick and The Sidewalk Racer
PLEASE HELP ME!!!
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Which limerick? Limerick is a county and city in Ireland. A limerick is a form of poetry.
I presume on how she was assigned it, that the limerick she words it as means the one using rhyme
The poem "The Sidewalk Racer" is not a limerick.
http://www.writeawriting.com/poetry/limerick
http://www.writeawriting.com/poetry/limerick
Lim·er·ick1.
[ˈlim(ə)rik]
DEFINITION
1.a county in the Republic of Ireland, in the western part of the province of Munster.
•the county town of Limerick, on the Shannon River; pop. 52,539 (2006).
lim·er·ick2.
[ˈlim(ə)rik]
NOUN
1.a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.
ORIGIN
late 19th cent.: said to be from the chorus “Will you come up to Limerick?,” sung between improvised verses at a gathering.
RELATED FORMS
limerick (noun)
limericks (plural noun)
From Oxford Dictionaries
[ˈlim(ə)rik]
DEFINITION
1.a county in the Republic of Ireland, in the western part of the province of Munster.
•the county town of Limerick, on the Shannon River; pop. 52,539 (2006).
lim·er·ick2.
[ˈlim(ə)rik]
NOUN
1.a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.
ORIGIN
late 19th cent.: said to be from the chorus “Will you come up to Limerick?,” sung between improvised verses at a gathering.
RELATED FORMS
limerick (noun)
limericks (plural noun)
From Oxford Dictionaries
Okay, but (not my words) A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are often funny or nonsensical. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, a famous author who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the 1800's. This was an entire book of silly limericks.
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