{"id":5134,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5134"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-queen-of-short-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-queen-of-short-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Short Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Queen of Short Poetry<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 13, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe Limerick&#8217;s the finest of verse forms<br \/>\nThe Queen of the well metered terse forms<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s perfect for humour<br \/>\nOr spreading a rumour<br \/>\nAnd filth that gets written in worse forms!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA Limerick, for those who don&#8217;t know, is a very strict verse form, which is<br \/>\nnevertheless surprisingly easy to write.<br \/>\nThe first two lines are three &#8220;diDUMdi&#8221;s (amphibrachs if you want the posh<br \/>\nterm)<br \/>\nThe next two have just two<br \/>\nAnd the fifth line matches the first two, the lines with similar lengths all<br \/>\nrhyme.<br \/>\nIf you want shorter, punchier rhymes you can drop the final &#8220;di&#8221; from either or<br \/>\nboth types of line, but lines 1,2,5 and 3,4 must be the same length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen of Short Poetry by cricketjeff on July 13, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The Limerick&#8217;s the finest of verse forms The Queen of the well metered terse forms It&#8217;s perfect for humour Or spreading a rumour And filth that gets written in worse forms! Author notes A Limerick, for those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5134\/revisions\/6374"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}