{"id":17502,"date":"2018-07-12T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17502"},"modified":"2018-07-07T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T21:07:45","slug":"limerick-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/07\/12\/limerick-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick myths"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Recently tried to search for the origin of the following limerick:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div class=\"stanza\">\r\n<p>The limerick, peculiar to English<\/p>\r\n<p>Is a verse form that's hard to extinguish<\/p>\r\n<p>Once Congress in session<\/p>\r\n<p>Decreed its suppression<\/p>\r\n<p>But people got around it by writing the last line without any rhyme or meter.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Which led me to a page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.limeryki.pl\/English\/LiMyths.html\">Limerick Myths<\/a>, a page that (among other things) makes clear that in fact the limerick is not exclusively an English-language form. (Content warning: includes a couple of examples of NSFW limericks, including one (at the end) which is arguably rapey.)<\/p>\r\n<p>That page also introduced me to the following words:\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/paroxytonic\">paroxytonic<\/a><\/i><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Refers to a line or word that has penultimate-syllable stress.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hypercatalectic\">hypercatalectic<\/a><\/i><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>(Misspelled in the article.) Refers to having an extra syllable after the end of a metrical foot.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paeon_(prosody)\">paeonic<\/a><\/i><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Refers to a metrical foot consisting of one long and three short syllables. \u201cDepending on the position of the long syllable, the four peaons are called a first, second, third, or fourth peaon,\u201d according to Wikipedia.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<p>For more about limericks, see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/03\/23\/limericks\/\">column l<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/06\/06\/lllimericks2\/\">column lll<\/a>. For more about syllable stress and metrical feet, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/11\/16\/trochee\/\">column T<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words","category-verse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17505,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502\/revisions\/17505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}