On Falling Down(Limerick)
The Limerick is:
a poem in 5 lines, a pentastich.
metered verse written in anapestic patterns. L1, L2 and L5 are trimeter (3 metric feet) and L3 and L4 are dimeter (2 metric feet) . (anapest = da da DUM or u-u-S = unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllables.)
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