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1 Rhythm and Rhyme Schemes
…and the wonderful world of Limericks

2 Rhythm The pattern the words and syllables make “The beat”
Made up of unstressed and stressed syllables Unstressed syllables are marked with a small “u” and stressed syllables are marked with a “/”

3 Iambs Also known as “feet”
One Iamb is one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable NOT ALL RHYTHMS USE IAMBS!!!

4 Rhyme Words that have similar ending sounds
Near rhymes usually have a similar vowel sound - orange & porridge

5 Rhyme Scheme The order in which the last word in each line of a stanza rhyme with other last words in each line of the stanza Marked by lower-cased letters (same letter=rhyming words)

6 Limericks Five-line poem Humorous and usually crude
First published in Ireland in the 1840s Rhythm: u//u//u// - u//u//u// - u//u/ - u//u/ - u//u//u// OR u/uu/uu/ - u/uu/uu/ - u/uu/ - u/uu/ - u/uu/uu/ Rhyme scheme: aabba

7 Hickory, Dikory, Dock Hickory, dikory, dock The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one The mouse ran down

8 Example 2 There was an old man from Peru, u/uu/uu/
who dreamed he was eating his shoe. He awoke in the night u/uu/ with a terrible fright, and found out that it was quite true.

9 About A Certain Limerick Writer
A limerick writer of wonder u//u//u// Pens humor he brews from Down Under. When he sends a zinger u//u// His joke seems to linger Exploding like lightening and thunder.


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