re: #481 Spare O’Lake
There once was a blogger nicked Cato
Whose head was shaped like a potato
His limericks were crappy
And his temper so snappy
That his nose grew red as a tomato.
Alas, your scansion is way off.
There once was a blogger nicked Cato
Whose headwas shaped like alooked like a potato
Hislimericksditties were crappy
And his temper so [“so”, may I inform you, is a fill-in syllable that all self-respecting limericists avoid] snappy
That his nose grew red as a [one beat too many] tomato.
I could teach you to do better, were you willing to learn.
But I doubt you could afford my rates.