In the flick of an eye she went down.
In the tub, there's the rub, cracked her crown.
Lying nude all alone,
she lay prone, broke her hand
and her foot. With a groan...
but with grit, tried to stand,
self em-bare-assed, up she rose like a clown.
~~Judi Van Gorder
7 Lines A Cross Limerick, an invented variation on the Limerick, found in Pathways For the Poet by Viola Berg 1977.
The elements of the Cross Limerick are:
1. a septet. (7 lines).
2. metric, anapestic L1, L2 and L7 trimeter (3 metric feet) and L3,L4,L5, L6 dimeter (2 metric feet). (anapest = da da DUM)
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme aabcbca.
4. best used for witty, whimsical, bawdy themes, light verse.
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