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Thread #868   Message #2311622
Posted By: Joe_F
09-Apr-08 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Bawdy Limericks [1]
Subject: RE: Bawdy Limericks
Limericks that have the first & last line the same (or ending the same) are sometimes called "learicks", because Edward Lear favored that scheme:

There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
Who danced a quadrille with a raven;
But they said, "It's absurd
To encourage this bird!"
So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven.