![]() ![]() Grabbed the bucket and ran, don’t Juneau. Pa said, I don’t have that bucket, Nantucket. Peter Chubb, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England There are numerous limerick variations that begin this way, many of which are considered dirty or inappropriate. There was no need for your man to jack it.’ Perhaps the most famous example of limerick begins with the line: There once was a man from Nantucket. “Just take this here oyster and shuck it” Out the window, the bucket, you chuck it.Īnd said “Jewels, Dad, tell me where you stuck it.” He sent Nan home, with a plan, to Nantucket. When the man saw Pa leave with the bucket, With him were real cruel you can’t duck it.īut failed and in wrath cried “Aw shuck it!” I penned this short verse, and with luck it He walked down the street, Just a swinging his meat. Where he still held the cash as an asset,īut that leaves a question now, don’t it? There once was a man from Nantucket, Whose dong was so long he could suck it. The protagonist in the obscene versions is typically portrayed as well-endowed and hypersexualized. They’re almost always silly and fun to read aloud. ' There once was a man from Nantucket ' is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates often ribald rhymes and puns. If you’ve heard a variation of a five-line poem that begins with that line, then you’re familiar with a limerick. Box 626, Nantucket, MA 02554, or email your limerick. How to Write a Limerick: 6 Tips for Writing Limericks. Limericks should have five lines that follow the rhythm in the examples below.) Send the limericks to us at P.O. Because of reader demands, we again issue the challenge our readers to write their own ”chapters.“ (Only rhymes in the form of limericks will be accepted. The New York Exchange went one step further with the third rhyme, and the Pawtucket Times took over from there.Ī few years ago, Yesterday’s Island began to encourage readers to continue the saga. It all began when the Princeton Tiger revived the then well-known limerick printed first below and the Chicago Tribune answered with the second limerick. Expect a panicky email from me soon asking you HOW to analyze a poem.This series of limericks first appeared in a Jedition of a Nantucket newspaper. If there were poems written about them scratching their genitals and lighting farts, then I'd be a believer. And have I mentioned I'm not a big fan of the poem anyway? Men don't really believe the things poems make you think they believe. I got stuck with "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon and Lord Byron. E, at least you let your students pick a poet. *wink* Lori, it would be just my luck that I'd become famous for ridiculous limericks rather than my scathingly brilliant real writing! Kelly, aw thanks! I can write oodles of limericks when I'm avoiding the real homework! Mrs. Lanternlight, oh that wasn't the only version of the Nantucket limerick I wrote. Hillbilly Mom, not only do poems have feet, but they can have more than two! EEEEEEE!! They're like caterpillars! Tell that husband of yours to watch it - the DIBS (Department of Ice Baby Services) is keeping their eye on him. Back to studying about scansion and meter. "Fitty" the 55-gallon drum maniacal killer was named by her, after all.) (If you're not a regular long-time reader who knows that my mother is convinced that I'm going to end up chopped up in a 55-gallon drum, that last one will make no sense, but I'm fairly certain that Hillbilly Mom will chuckle. It makes me feel better.Īnd she smacked his dumb head with a shoe. See, this is where my mind goes during times of stress. So he took off the pail and said, "F*ck it." I've been composing them in my head all day. I am enjoying the fact that we have to write two limericks, though. Who knew there was a science to it? Well, I guess the poets knew it. Iambic pentameter? Trochaic tachometer? Odiferous odometers? Wtf? I was just under the impression that you wrote things that rhymed and called it poetry. I still have a week before I tackle that part. I'm too consumed with the poetry to worry about the drama just yet. There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all of his cash in a bucket, But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket. Box 626, Nantucket, MA 02554, or email your limerick. These last three weeks of the semester are a veritable whirlwind of poetry and drama and lemme tell ya, I'm addled. Limericks should have five lines that follow the rhythm in the examples below.) Send the limericks to us at P.O. ![]()
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