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Limerick
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as - There was a young lady, Amanda,/Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de/Si/cle, I deem/But her Journal Intime/Was what sent her papa to Uganda.//
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Limerick'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/l/limerick.html. 1828.