Lucky Ducky

Limerick. Avatar duck pic found on "Amazing Photos" website. Fuzzy duckling found on Flickr.

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There once was a cute little ducky
Who didn't know
He was quite lucky
The rest of his sibs
Fell out of their cribs
And the broken egg mess
Was quite yucky.

Reviews

[MsMermaid]

I looked up rules of a Limerick and it may have started out needing to begin with where a person is from that the Limerick is about, but like Haiku, it has evolved. So the basic rules are more about rhyme and meter than subject matter. Here is a well known Limerick by Edward Lear that doesn't follow the rule of "place or city"...

There was an old man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared!
Two owls and a hen,
Four larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”

Here are the rules of a Limerick:

Rules
Limericks are 5 lines
long.
Lines 1, 2 and 5 each
have seven to ten
syllables.
Lines 3 and 4 each have
five to seven syllables.
The lines have an
‘a a b b a’ rhyming
pattern because,
- lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme
with one another.
- lines 3 and 4 rhyme
with one another.
The last word of the
poem is often the same
as the last word of lines
1 or 2.

[WhiteWillow]

Loved this! Put a smile on my face

[MsMermaid]

Great suggestion, Laura. I followed your advice. Thanks ever so much.

[Laura E. Aranda]

SMILE

keep on writing!

I think the only thing is that I would have used a yellow color for the font or orange...........yolky orange

[Harmonica winds]

LOL, so cute and creative

Aaah great thanks for sharing, I really thought i was right, from old Dutch structure I was learned it had to start with an place, maybe in other parts of the world the rule isn't so.... Anyway your write is awesome ;)

However a Limerick always has to starts with a place or city, this is so gorgeous, too! It makes me happy to read :D

[Kim]

LOL, ever so cute,
Amazing write ; )