Limerick · Funny
A Poet Named Pratt
There once was a poet named Pratt
whose meter fell painfully flat;
when told, "That won't scan,"
he cried, "Yes it can!" —
and it did, when he stomped with his hat.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- A Poet Named Pratt
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 5 lines
- Form
- Limerick, Rhyming Poems, Short Poems
- Themes
- Funny, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 5 lines · one 5-line stanza
- End rhyme
- AABBA — limerick rhyme.
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalA Poet Named Pratt, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 4c653698b198c2b3…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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