{"id":14816,"date":"2012-07-06T17:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2012-07-06T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T21:19:04","slug":"loop-poetry-form-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/07\/06\/loop-poetry-form-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Looped (Limerick Using the &#8220;Loop&#8221; Form)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Poetic Bloomings introduces us to a new (to me) form: <a href=\"http:\/\/poeticbloomings.com\/2012\/07\/04\/in-form-poet-loop-poetry\/\">the &#8220;loop.&#8221;<\/a> While the form has several variations, the essential requirement is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In each stanza, the last word of the first line becomes the first word of line two. The last word of line 2 becomes the first word of line 3. The last word of line 3 becomes the first word of line 4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While limericks aren&#8217;t mentioned as an option, I decided to try a &#8220;limerick loop.&#8221;  Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<p>Looped (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>This poetry form leaves me looped.<br \/>\nLooped&#8217;s the least of my problems.  I&#8217;m pooped:<br \/>\nPooped at trying to write.<br \/>\nWriting&#8217;s often a fight.<br \/>\nFight I must, or with slackers be grouped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Poetic Bloomings introduces us to a new (to me) form: the &#8220;loop.&#8221; While the form has several variations, the essential requirement is: In each stanza, the last word of the first line becomes the first word of line two. The last word of line 2 becomes the first word of line 3. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,69],"tags":[3123,4934,3121,3122,5016,1166,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14830,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}