I came close to using a Clerihew for Tootlepedal’s Festive Limerick but as I wrote Limericks about Derrick J Knight and the ladies I thought it was only fair to produce a third Limerick.
Originally I tried to force “Tootlepedal” into a line but I couldn’t. I’ve never been good at the metrical part of poetry but even I can tell it’s not a good word for a Limerick.
There was a Scots cyclist called Tootlepedal
(If you get this to scan, take a medal)
If only I dare shorten it to Tootle I could get him to pootle, but it’s probably safer not to do that. So that was how I left it.
I looked at several sites for help with scansion, and it wasn’t time wasted as it revealed that the Ancient Greeks believed a metrical foot should have an arsis and a thesis. (Plural arses and theses, honestly!) It’s not complicated humour, but let’s face it, I’m a simple man and I’m grinning as I type.
A little inventiveness and adaptation later I came up with this version.
A keen Scots cyclist called Tom,
cycles around with aplomb.
If he was Tommy,
it would rhyme with bonhomie,
which would be funny. But wrong.
I think this probably signals the end of my Limerick Season for this year. It’s a lot harder than writing Clerihews.
I’m glad that you tried out this style
Your Tommy poem sure made me smile.
But though we may know ’em,
Those Limerick poems
Can drive one quite nuts for a while.
Nice one! 🙂
Well done!
Thank you.
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I have been called a lot worse than Tommy in my time. I wasted some time on scansion too but it seems an intractable problem. Can I use some of my bonhomie to congratulate you on your verses?
That would be a very acceptable use of surplus bonhommie, thank you.
I’m going to look at the limericks I missed!
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I do like Mark II
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Bravo.
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