Definitions for: Limerick


[n] a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
[n] port city in southwestern Ireland



Webster (1913) 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.

See Also: city, Eire, Ireland, Irish Free State, metropolis, port, rhyme, urban center, verse

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