A limerick is a five line poem, usually with a humorous subject, usually in a trochaic metre, rimed
AABBA
(the B lines are nearly always shortened, and regularly halflines):
There was a young lady from Deal
Who was totally lacking appeal;
"Though I try and I try.
I just can't hook a boy!
I'll just have to marry a seal!"
A Sonnet is nearly always serious, has fourteen lines, and is usually (in English) in iambic pentameter.
I touch the curtain. What's left of the day
Draws longitudes across your bedroom wall.
The room is a cartographer's display
Of vectors and projections, where we're small
And plottable. I wonder if someone
Here before me would notice the same thing
And think about its transience. The sun
Almost behind the hospital now, sinking
Down in the orange litter of its cranes
That almost spell-out letters ... But I'm stuck
If I can read them. All the weather-vanes
Show different ways. The unexpected dark
Wraps its magnetic baffle round the earth.
You draw my flesh. See. You are my True North.
A limerick has fewer lines than a sonnet because a limerick has only five lines with a rhyme scheme that goes A, A, B, B, A whereas a sonnet has fourteen lines and the rhyme scheme goes A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D, E, F, E, F, G, G. A limerick and a sonnet have a different meter. A limerick's meter is an amnibrachaic trimeter (weak, strong, weak, weak, strong, weak, weak, strong)in lines 1, 2 and 5 and a sonnet's meter is an iambic pentameter (weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong) in each line. For example, 'I all alone beweep my outcast state' is a line from a sonnet whereas 'There was an Old Man with a beard' is a line from a limerick. Limericks are often in the third person wheras sonnets are often in first person. Limericks usually have a humorous subject while sonnets mostly have a serious subject.
haiku, sonnet, free verse, limerick
which is the longest poem- a sonnet, an epic, or a ballad?
The rhyme scheme is different. A Shakespearean sonnet is ababcdcdefefgg whereas a Spenserian is ababbcbccdcdee.
A haiku is a form of poetry that is not a sonnet. It consists of three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.
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An ode is a long poem. A limerick is always 5 lines with a particular rhyming scheme (AABBA).
Spenserian, not sure of the spelling. :)It's called a Shakespearean Sonnet. Shakespearean as in William Shakespeare because he basically created hois own form of poetry.A.sonnet.
Shakespearean sonnet uses the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg, whereas Italian sonnet uses the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee (linking rhymes).
there is about 55 types of names of poetry names are: haiku rhyme cinquian acrostic limerick free verse sonnet
A sonnet is a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. A poem can be either that or any other form the poet chooses.
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