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The Limericks Prosody u I I PAGE THE P.NEHURST OUTLOOK 3B ' 1 i THE APPJjMJH AHX8, Miss Han M. little Announce Inter-es- t Morning, During PROSODY Published Every Saturday ffTHE LIMERICKS In Course of Instruction. the Season, November to May, at Miss Nan M. Little of PineblufF, who Plnehurst, Moore County, North Carolina. is to give instruction in drawing, paint- equal accuracy by the (Founded by James W. Tufts) HE limerick, while not a be described with ing, modeling and carving meets pupils stately vehicle of poeti- use of terms of prosody. The form I have Herbert JL. Jillson, - - - Editor at the Pinehui f t School building between cal expression, is inter- endeavored to describe is one frequently - - 11 and 12, Tuesday, December 15. The Outlook Publishing- Co., Pub'a oddilies of pronuncia- esting to the student of used to set forth "While the work suggests new methods Copy. tion by means of rhyming words. One Dollar Annually, Five Cents a metrical construction. in education," says Miss Little, "it has, same purpose, Foreign Subscriptions Fifty Cents The limerick, like the Another limerick to the nevertheless, stood the test of many a different scheme as to prosody, Additional. sonnet, has its recognized forms. In the but with years searching investigation and prac- matter of the arrangement of the rhym- is : A poor little fellow named Vaugnan tical demonstration by Prof. J. Liberty Editor is always glad to consider contri- than the sonnet ; The ing lines it is less elastic Was playing one day on the laughan, Tadd of Philadelphia, showing by actual butions of descriptive articles, short stories, is narratives and verse. Good photographs are in respect of diversity of metre it far When a whirlwind came nigh, results, that art instruction, manual especially desired. Took him up in the sklgh, Editorial Rooms over the General Store ; hours more elastic. training and nature study, rightly con- sonnets of And none could tell where he had gaughan. 9 to 5. In telephoning ask Central for Mr. If you will turn to the ducted and properly correlated with Jlllson's office. find of them Advertising rate folder and circulation state- Shakespeare you will all I recall another limerick of this order other studies, should begin with youth ment on request. adherence to payable to nearly perfect in rhythmic that is almost, if not entirety, perfect in and continue throughout the elementary Make all remittances of The Outlook Publishing Company. his favored model. The departures metre. It runs : and higher stages of education. sonnets from this form other writers of His name was Methuselah Cholmodely, "The most beneficial effect is in help- Entered as second class matter at the Post are few. And most things he did rather dohnodely ; ing the individual to make the most of Carolina. invariably con- Office at Plnehurst, North The limerick, while it But by dint of the fame himself. It creates a love of action, an sonnet always Of his family name sists of five lines, as the appreciation of beauty, and a training of aftords its authors He married a girl that was colmodely. Saturday, December 12, lOO. consists of fourteen, hand and eye to obey the mind and exe- metres. this strophe the first, second and an interesting choice of In cute its orders. A most important phase second and lines are simple nonanacrusistic As Mrs. Santa Claus. In the limerick the first, fifth of the work is ambidexterity, introduced with one another and amphibrachic tetrameter acatalectic, and fifth lines rhyme mainly for its physiological and educa- If I were Mrs. Santa Claus, lines rhyme with the intervening dipodies are plain nonan- I'd be a real good wife, of course the third and fourth tional value, exercises being used to scold or fret-- But each other. But the lines vary metrically acrusistic anapestic dimeter acatalectic. And never make a fine, well-kn- it union between the help my husband buy the toys moods and the various is by some prosodists with the varying It held that the hand and brain, forcing the hand (and To give nice little girls and boyi, topics of the authors, and have found amphibrach is a rodundant expedient of And no one I'd forget. each hand) to obey the mind independ- amusement in studying in English verse, but I am in- considerable podometry ently. The dollies should wear lovely clothes-Dres- ses view of attempting to its recognition in limericks limericks with the clined to favor "Prof. Tadd's new method in education of lace, with satin bows, designate them in accordance with the on the ground that it does away in many And coats of pink and blue has exerted a profound influence through- rules of prosody. instances with troublesome anacruses or I couldn't sew these all myself, out the educational world, creating an limerick has a peculiar distinction catalecticisms. So I would ask a fairy elf The perplexing interest rarely equalled. Its reception To kindly make a few. in English verse. It is said that five-sixt- hs these examples it is possible to From has been gratifying and the methods are of entire volume of English how broad a field study And every frosty Christmas Day, the perceive for the now being widely applied in private and poetry is written in some form of iambic prosodiacal schemes is offered by a With reindeers harnessed to our sleigh, of public schools and institutions." Through snowy clouds we'd ride, measure; but there probably has never single and unique form of English poetry. And stop at big brick chimneys tall, been composed an iambic limerick. In which I'd never dare to crawl, So I would wait outside One of the most entertaining functions of limericks in the English tongue is to WHO I)OX SAYED 'POSSUM ? SVBSCIIIPTIO SWEEPSTAKES. While Santa Claus the gifts would bring, display by means of the rhyming words 'Cause he's not afraid of anything vagaries of pronunciation or of spell- Like chimneys full of smoke ; the - Varied Program Provide Full Hay He has been down them all his life, ing, whichever you choose to call them. Sad Ending- of Chase After Favorite So he'd act different from his wife, Many of the limericks of this order deal Darker Delicacy. for Golfer. And wouldn't gasp or choke. names. in one A subscription with proper I have mind One of the cleverest of the season's ad- golf sweepstake filled Perhaps when I grow big and old, which runs as follows : vertising posters, and of peculiar interest in Wednesday pleasantly, an approach- If I behave the way I'm told, ing, putting and a oc- There was once a young fellow named Talla-fen- in this section, is a large color print is- driving contest And not unkind or cross, sued by the Winchester people showing cupying the morning, and. a medal play This dear old Saint will marry me. Alia-ferr- o And his first name, like young Twist's, was handicap the afternoon. Then, oh, how happy I will be ; the ending of a " 'possum hunt." As Mrs. Santa Claus ! He was hungry for more a J. I). Foot of Uye, P. M. Hamilton of s Grouped about fallen hollow log are So he went to the store two negroes and a dog, but instead of the Pelham led in the approaching and put- And purchase two buns a there and ballaferro. the treasured delicacy coming forward ting contest, and C. T. Dunham of West The rules for determining quantity are response per- Newton, and Mr. Hamilton in the driving. JC Wonder What' the Cause. into the light in to forceful perhaps a little less definite in English suasion, a skunk makes its ap- Lincoln C. Cummings of Brookline, Why is it that the bootblack haughty they are quan- whose handicap was won Saye civil things to me? than in Greek. In Greek pearance, with results which the artist fourteen, the Why is that my barber tity rules metre ; in English verse accent has faithfully pictured. handicap with a card of eighty, E. R. Is scant on repartee? or stress amounts to far more than the Pooley of Philadelphia (15) making Why is it that the lady quantity of syllables, although the most second in eighty-on- e, and Mr. Dunham Who washes all my clothes exact writers of English poetry (4) third in eighty-fou- r. Is really complimentary endeavor The Sliclwinter Handicap. About my shirts and hose? to make quantity and accent coincide so The scores : Thus early interest in the second an- Why is it that the milkman far as possible. Writers of limericks, L. C. Cummings, 45 49 94 14 80 Mb nual Midwinter Handicap Trap Shooting Is lavish with cream? however, have not striven for this nicety E. R. Pooley. 40 50 96 15 81 Why is that the janitor Tournament is showing itself de- C. T. Dunham, 42 40 88 84 of construction, and their scanning is by in the 4 Turns on enough of steam? A. I. Creamer, 10 85 accent. mand for detailed programs which are 45 50 95 Why is it every one's polite? J. It. (Jooilall, 48 62 86 coming from all quarters of the country. 100 14 I wonder what's the cause? Applying this method of analysis, the Dr. G. J. McKee, 49 49 98 12 86 know! me The dates, as previously I It's struck all at once limerick quoted just now may be described announced, are II. W.Ormabee, 47 52 99 12 87 Christmas and Santa Claus! in the terms employed for denominating January 21, 22, 23.
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