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Lovelee Posted 20 years ago

Question about rhythm and meters

0 okay so in a limerick by Carolyn Wells the first line goes like this:02br
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0A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming.

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  • 0A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet.
  • If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem.
  • The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming.
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0A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. 02br
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