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Limerick Scheme

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30%8 A Swedish group has poetic scheme for this Lear favourite
noun

• a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

• port city in southwestern Ireland

27%7 Often used to end a limerick
noun

• two items of the same kind

• a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

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New York Times14 Feb 2013 Down 37 AABBA
New York Times16 Jan 2010 Across 35 AABBA
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