Questions tagged [limerick]
A limerick is a 5-line poem with a strict AABBA rhyme scheme, often with five-line anapestic meter, sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
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A dirty limerick
What word is described by the following limerick?
A place where the lions may roar?
A place you attend after four?
The usual sense
Will shortly commence
Exploding with colors galore!
I ...
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The Answer Would Make a Good Title
Here is a riddle quite long
I hope you can follow along
You'll be delighted
While I recite it:
I'm known to be unmatched in song.
You'll find me the whole world around
In nature 'tis ...
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What is James's middle name?
There once was a man called James
who liked to use different names
If you're slick and astute
by removing the fruit
your favorite flava remains
What was his middle name?
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Starts with an R
A fashionable part of the blues
I am whatever you don't choose
I start with an R
My messages go far
But maybe just after this snooze.
What am I?
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Poor Dvorak (a limerick)
A famous composer named Dvorak
Decided to open his door rack.
But then Dvorak slipped,
And suddenly tripped,
Abe u.nn d.aeucpoy cbyr yd. unrrp pajtv
The last line of the limerick is all ...
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What is my favorite color?
Oh the sweet joys of favoritism! I have another puzzle for the community; as always good luck to you all, and I hope you enjoy it!
Go to the bottom you'll see.
Rounded but right there with me.
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Who’s in for a Cruising?
This is part 6 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
Looks like I’m getting way behind schedule already. Sorry about that! Time flies ...
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Good Little Monsters
Though I am small, hairy, and green
(And once was quite scary, obscene!),
Your wars can't defeat me.
You now want to eat me!
But don't let your friends intervene.
Hint:
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A Chwistmas Widdle With a Twist
Chwistmas is the same with or without me, though I do wish you all Mewwy Chwistmas...
I wish to be wid of my condition
I am named and famed with humiliation
A small happy square wheel! That's my goal
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I live in a spaceship
I live in a spaceship that travels so 快地,
along with a doctor who I find 真帅的,
my features are 美丽,
my name rhymes with 内力,
it's my job to fix if the engine goes 坏了.
Who am I?
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Nice no-computers way to find limerick primes?
A limerick number is a 5-digit number whose digits are in the form of a limerick rhyme scheme: $aabba$. How many limerick primes (limerick numbers which are also prime) are there?
The answer is
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I seek to unease but leave without a scar
My first brings in the light from the stars
The other is preferred before the time of cars
Before you even knew
I am born within you
I seek to unease but leave without a scar
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I'm in lips or in hair
Sometimes I like to be part of the game;
Sometimes I'm part of an exercise name.
I'm in lips or in hair;
I'm afield so beware;
I'm in many a place but direct is never my aim.
What am I?
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