Famous poems rewritten as limericks

[qatarperegrine]

Click here to giggle a lot.

My favorite, Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud":

There once was a poet named Will
Who tramped his way over a hill
And was speechless for hours
Over some stupid flowers
This was years before TV, but still.

Via Boingboing.

Comments

[canyonwren.livejournal.com]

That is an AWESOME limerick!

[http://users.livejournal.com/syd___/]

i expect something...naughty?... when i see the word limerick.
though these are definitely nicely irreverent.

Baj

[(Anonymous)]

What's a limerick?

Re: Baj

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A limerick is a five-line poem; the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, and are somewhat long (three feet) and the third & fourth lines rhyme and are a bit shorter (two feet).

They are pretty much always funny, and almost always obscene. And they most frequently start "There was a young man from ..." or something along those lines. Probably the most famous limerick starts "There once was a man from Nantucket," but I'm not going to post it here. ;-)