Verse is a kind of interesting slang poetry style. It is said that it was named after Zhang Lier, a Chinese author from the Tang Dynasty. Later generations called poems with slang, humor, small and interesting words "lime poems". In addition, sometimes the author writes poems to mock himself or out of self-effacement, which is also called "doggerel".
Although limericks do not pay much attention to meter, parallelism and obliqueness, they will definitely rhyme and usually consist of five-character or seven-character sentences. Limericks are often used to mock and ridicule various aspects of society, and can also be used as riddles.
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In the long years since the Tang Dynasty, although there have been some dross in limericks, the shortcomings cannot be concealed. There have been many healthy, interesting and innovative contents. good work.
It comes from life and is rooted in the soil of the masses. It does not make idle moans and directly reflects the joys and pains, likes and dislikes, hopes and demands of the people. It is closely related to the people and has profound people's feelings. nature and broad mass base.
In the process of the development of limericks, many literati have also produced many good limericks one after another, some of which are humorous and playful, and express the words of the people, or sing with joy and love for the people, which are combined with the limericks of unknown folk poets. Together, they complement each other and promote the development and transformation of limerick creation in terms of content and form.
The language is slang, full of humor, and the "greasy" flavor is an obvious feature of limericks. The "oil" of doggerel is that it can introduce slang and customs from the fields and streets into the poem, making the poetic language expressive and fresh. People read it warmly and freshly. Even an illiterate person can quickly understand the main idea of ??the poem when listening to others reciting it. .
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