8 December 2025 – Oh, the limerick!
*Five lines;
* AABBA rhyme scheme;
* a fondness for the galloping anapest meter;
* and (says a man who knows) “a propensity for the perverse.”
I am not thinking of the perverse. I am, however, thinking of a limerick that meets all the 5 lines-AABBA-anapest-meter requirements. I am thinking of the one that begins: “There was a young lady from Spain.”
Only when I look around online do I discover that this Young Lady goes on to have many different limerick adventures.
My particular Young Lady has her adventures on the train. To wit:
“There was a young lady from Spain / Who used to get sick on the train.”
I herewith offer you a timely Vancouver re-write of those first two (AA) lines. After that, it’s the same BBA outcome that the Young Lady knows well.
(Ahem. Throat-clearing.)
“I really do hate to complain,
“But this season we only have rain —
“Not once or twice,
“Which is decent and nice,
“But again and again and again.”
WALKING WOMAN 
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 8 December 2025There was a young lady from Vancouver
Who did an incredible maneuver …
I tried to complete it but got brainlock. 😁
But here’s one created by AI:
A city quite famously green,
Where rain is a regular scene.
With mountains so grand,
And sea close at hand,
It’s a lovely, lush, wet, coastal queen.
Cheers.
icelandpenny
/ 8 December 2025Love it! well I love your beginning more than AI’s effort, since the latter while impeccably 5 lines & AABBA & even (gasp) anapest meter, it somehow isn’t quite silly enough. Whereas your beginning is splendidly silly, and impressive in its rhyme. (I’d’ve not thought of that) So, emboldened, I complete your beginning: There was a young lady from Vancouver / Who did an incredible manoeuver; Her toes went tap/ And her brain went snap / and she swept it all up with a Hoover.
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 8 December 2025Thank you! That’s a great finish. Works splendidly. 😁
Bronlima
/ 8 December 2025Vancouver, Uber, hoover,
Al Limericka I’m such a looser.
Won’t carry on
For it’s all going wrong,
And all I’ll do is confuse her.