• egerlach@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    That depends on whether you treat “limericks” as a trochee (long-short, i.e. “lim-ricks”) or a dactyl (long-short-short, i.e. “lim-er-icks”).

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      2 months ago

      Egerlach, they once called this bard

      Who’d school any with whom he did spar

      Whether trochee or dactyl

      word choice was impec’ble

      master of prosody, unflappable.