2060: Names for Limericks Aug 5, 2020

Many different standard, poetic meters have names. Many people may be familiar with the phrase 'iambic pentameter', kept in the many people's minds still today because of Shakespeare. Another popular meter is that of a limerick, but the name for the exact series of stressed and unstressed syllables is called an anapest

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