Thursday, March 21, 2013

Eka-Limerick

 
Quoted from memory, from Samuel Beckett:

I did what I could,
a thing beyond my strength,
  and often
  for exhaustion
gave up doing it.

This was set as prose; but harbors within it  a five-line rhythm,
pinched at the waist,
reminiscent of the classic limerick.

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