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ReplyTo a comment on A Short Letter by Ranger.

BenRice9 Mar 2006

I tripped over some extra syllables on some lines. Felt a bit awkward for a limerick.

At first I thought, "Byron or Chaucer"? Why not choose authors who used the limerick? But then, the speaker isn't wishing he were a limerick writer - he's wishing he were more eloquent than the simple limerick.