Limerick

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically has a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A humorous, often nonsensical, and sometimes risqé poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet, and rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rhyme.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A nonsense song or verse, one of a series of impromptu productions of a free character, sung at convivial parties in Ireland.
  • n. A nonsense verse of a fixed type, more or less amusing, of the pattern of those written by Edward Lear in his “Book of Nonsense.” See Learic. The following is an example:
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. port city in southwestern Ireland
  • n. a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
    • Hypernym
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    port    metropolis    urban center    city    rhyme   
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