There once was a monster called Loch
Who went blind one day at the dock
Next day a boy came
And laughed without shame
For well placed on Loch's head was a sock
Explication:
This is a limerick I wrote about a monster that we have all heard of in our childhood, The Loch Ness Monster. I called the poem "A Bedtime Story" because this poem really represents all the stories and monsters we heard about in our childhood. All of us were scared of course, but we always tried to find a way to push the frightening images of giant ogres and fire-spewing dragons from our minds. Humor was my way of reducing my fear of these monsters.
A limerick is a five-line poem in anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba). Anapestic meter consists of two short syallbles followed by a long one. Amphibrach is a metrical foot that consists of a long syllable between two short syllables. The purpose of the limerick is to be witty or humorous and playful in nature. As such, they are often the first poems that children write. Coincidentally, the limerick was the first type of poem I wrote in elementary school. This limerick is anapestic in meter. Hopefully the joke is clear enough for readers to understand.
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