Literary Limericks

If you’re looking for an alternative version of Hamlet’s soliloquies, a member of our Facebook group has been turning famous passages from literature into limerick form with entertaining results. This is part of a complete episode.

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  • For Martha:

    O Romeo, Romeo dear
    ‘Tis your name, and not you, that I fear
    Would a rose smell the same
    If it had a new name?
    Let us change ours, and vanish from here.

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