Re: A limerick commission! A limerick commission!

Mark Steese (mark_steese@yahoo.com) wrote:
> M C Hamster <davolson@speakeasy.nospam.net> wrote:
> [snip]
>> Well, I object of course to people suddenly changing the rules,
>> making the task so much easier.
>>
>> Huey wrote his request this way:
>>
>> "I've been asked to compose a poem about:
>>
>> a Bolivian fellow named Henry."
>>
>> That line, of course, scans with exact limerick meter, and thus
>> is obviously to be the first line of the limerick.
>
> Indeed. And unless I am much mistaken, the point of ending the
> first line with 'Henry' is to set an especially vexing challenged
> for the composer, who will have to come up with something like
> this:
>
> A Bolivian fellow named Henry
> Loved a Christian Korean named Jen Rhee
> He pursued her to Wales
> And wooed her with tales
> Of the Protestant martyr John Penry.
>
> Something like that, anyway.
>

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