The Style Invitational is renowned for all sorts of clever, irreverent humor and wordplay in its almost quarter-century of varied contests. Some are free-form, off the wall, while other contests state ...

Two weeks ago I announced a contest for the best new original limerick on language. Easy to ask, hard to do. A limerick is one of the most demanding of verse forms. It gallops along in a tight circle, ...

(WHTM) May 12 is National Limerick Day, when we celebrate the puckish poetry that always seems to sound amusing, no matter how serious the subject matter. So where did the limerick come from, when was ...

Whose doggerel is not worth a curse. An anapest is the classic, two-short-syllables-followed-by-a-long-one metre that is key to a properly constituted limerick. It’s also called an antidactylus.

Poems don't always have to be serious. They don't always have to make sense. A limerick is a poem of only five lines with a set rhythm and rhyme pattern. Limericks are always funny and do not have to ...