There's a Hole in Your Sky: Limericks You Can Tell to Anyone

Scher, Bob

ISBN 10: 0977221245 / ISBN 13: 9780977221240

Edité par Browser Books Publishing, 2006

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• Titre: There's a Hole in Your Sky: Limericks You Can Tell to Anyone
• Éditeur: Browser Books Publishing
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0977221245
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780977221240
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Poetry. Drawings by Peter Szasz. As many have noted, limericks seem to be programmed in our genes. And interestingly, nonbawdy or "clean" limericks, or as Bob Scher calls them, limes, predate the bawdy ones. Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, and W.S. Gilbert all employed perfect or nearperfect limes in their works. However, a lime capable of standing on its own requires a twist or a neat turn in the last line, which is true of none of the above. Nor was it necessary since in these cases the verses are all part of longer works, some consisting entirely of limes. These are limes in form, but not in essence.