Is this a real poem?

Question

The poem:

There once was a man from Peru
Who dreamed he was eating his shoe
He woke with a fright
In the middle of the night
To find that his dream had come true

Think it's by Emily Dickinson, but I could be completyle wrong. LOL. Who is it by?

And no, I didn't get it from Spongebob Squarepants. LOL. I found it in a poetry/literature type of book...

Answer 1

It's a Limerick, and I don't think Miss D. wrote it. Limericks are a type of poetry, but they certainly aren't great verse. It's called doggerel.

Exerpt from "Doggerel" article, Wikipedia:

Doggerel describes verse considered of little literary value. The word is derogatory, from Middle English.

Doggerel might have any or all of the following failings:

trite, cliched, or overly sentimental
forced or imprecise rhymes
faulty metre
misordering of words to force correct metre
Almost by definition examples of doggerel are not preserved, since if they have any redeeming value they are not considered doggerel. One example of doggerel might be:

Said the big red rooster
to the little brown hen,
"You hav'nt laid an egg
Since goodness knows when."

Said the little brown hen
to the big red rooster,
"You don't come along
As often as you used to."

Answer 2

No. Emily Dickinson has nothing to do with this limerick. It is a real poem, but only in the sense that it follows the requirements for a limerick. It's not a poem in the same way that Poe's "The Raven" or Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is. That little ditty is an anonymous thing that just floats around popular American culture.

Answer 3

That's a rythmic poem. If you clap at a steady pace while saying the poem and counting how many times you clap for each line, it will form a pattern.

Line 1: 3 claps
Line 2: 3 claps
Line 3: 2 claps
Line 4: 2 claps
Line 5: 3 claps

So yeah, it's a poem

Answer 4

It is a limerick. They all start in a similar way and have the same schema. I don;t think it's Dickinson's.. However I'm not sure. A Nobelist, Wisława Szymborska, good poet, likes writing limericks...

Answer 5

No it's most definately not by Emily Dickinson. It's just a passed on limerik/rhyme that is quite popular for kindergarteners to learn. That's it...=]

Answer 6

OK I looked this up, and there's this website that says a kid named Joseph wrote it for school. It wasn't exactly the same as you wrote it:

There was an old man of Peru
Who dreamed he was eating his shoe
He woke in the night
In a terrible fright
And found it was perfectly true


So I have no idea where yours came from

Answer 7

in case you think of it quite is a poem, then possibly it quite is. It sounds to me as while you're disgruntled approximately something and opt for to get it off your chest. Structurally, the piece is exciting because of the rhymes in the time of stanzas, first lines with first lines etc, keep the S2 L2 get right of entry to. outdoors of that, and a few reasonable syntactic overstructuring interior the 1st and final stanzas (and a few assonance and alliteration that seems at cases compelled), it quite is comparatively free of what I commonly go mutually with the climate of poetry... yet then, it quite is a short poem, and that i believe you chosen to jot down this quite than a query as remark for the reason which you enjoyed the project of expressing complicated emotions in verse. i wish you detect some peace and backbone in what looks troubling you. EDIT: To clean up slightly incorrect information that has regarded for the reason that I final checked in in this question, i could opt for to point out that "king" and "dream" do not the two have the long 'i' sound as yet another respondent has claimed; in basic terms the latter does. the two 'i' sounds of those words are sharply outstanding in the two nicely-known British English and American English utilization by utilising the IPA, forming a pair of what are standard as lax alternates. The vowel sound in "dream" is declared quite greater frontward interior the mouth than that in the time of "king." Your slant rhyme is definitely slightly a stretch, yet as you recognize all too nicely writing poetry is a query of pleasing quite a few constraints concurrently, and sound is in simple terms one, certainly one that possibly never could desire to be subjugated to which ability. So i can stay with the reality that this could be a greater "ingenious' slant rhyme than others, yet i did not opt for different readers to be left scratching their heads over the different respondent's edit.

Answer 8

This is a limerick. To my knowledge Emily Dickinson did not write any limericks.

(I may be wrong, but I don't think so.)

Answer 9

Is it from the book..."Ride A Purple Pelican"??? I'm not sure of the exact title, but it sounds like it could be??

Answer 10

did u get that from spongebob squarepants?? i think u did!