Acrostic Limericks 51

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Limerick, a popular form of short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant metre is anapestic, with two metrical feet in the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others. Encyclopaedia Britannica

Many examples of acrostic poems can be found scattered around the web (where the first letter of each line spells out a word when read from top to bottom), but I have found very few examples of acrostic Limericks.

I now look out for prompts that contain five letters (or ten, fifteen or… let’s not get ahead of ourselves, eh?). I may add the odd one of my own, too.

Let me know what you think.

 

No five- or ten-letter prompts this week, so here's one of my own.

GLORY

for fun

Good day; let me tell you a story
Left over from my days of glory.
Oh yes – it was brave
Rebuking that knave.
You can never have faith in a Tory!

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Anyone care to join in?