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    131 month ago

    whose limericks stopped at line four

    Bad rhythm. Should be “whose limericks would stop at line four”

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      431 month ago

      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”).

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        1 month ago

        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.