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Top: Arts: Literature: Poetry: Forms: Fixed_Verse_Forms: Limerick
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The limerick consists of five anapestic lines rhymed aabba. The first, second, and fifth lines are trimeter; the third and fourth lines are dimeter. The form dates back at least to the fourteenth century. In its modern form, it is often, though not always, bawdy.
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