About Edward Lear’s Last Lines (Limerick)
Happy birthday Edward Lear and happy Limerick Day! But about those redundant Lear last lines:
This limerick lacks a good ending.
And please note that I’m sure not defending
Any Lear final line.
(Are they dull by design?)
This limerick lacks a good ending.
Tags: Edward Lear, Limerick Writing Humor, May Holidays, National Limerick Day, Odd Holidays
It’s true, his were all like that (rhyming the last word of line 1 with itself in line 5, though not repeating the entire line verbatim). But hey, we still owe a debt of gratitude to the Wright Brothers, though we don’t fly in one-person kites for a hundred yards down at the beach any more. And he gave us “The Owl and the Pussycat!”
That limerick lacks a good start!
But don’t be an anapest tart –
Old Ed was our catalyst,
Let not be his prattle dissed,
It got us all going in this art!
;)