Poetry Prompt Challenge Book

Lyrical lymrick

Where once wrote a woman a poem
on a site where people should know-em
on this day she would wish
a poem about fish
but instead had nothing to show-em

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Week # 14

Required Form:
LIMERICK

The Limerick has a set
rhyme scheme of : a-a-b-b-a
with a syllable structure of : 9-9-6-6-9.

The rhythm of the poem should go as follows:
Lines 1, 2, 5: weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak
Lines 3, 4: weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak

Example:
The Man From Aruba

There once was a man from Aruba,
Whose favorite hobby was scuba.
Every day he would wish,
He could spear a big fish.
But settled instead for canned tuna.

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