The Style Invitational is renowned for all sorts of clever, irreverent humor and wordplay in its almost quarter-century of varied contests. Some are free-form, off the wall, while other contests state ...

Two weeks ago I announced a contest for the best new original limerick on language. Easy to ask, hard to do. A limerick is one of the most demanding of verse forms. It gallops along in a tight circle, ...

Whose doggerel is not worth a curse. An anapest is the classic, two-short-syllables-followed-by-a-long-one metre that is key to a properly constituted limerick. It’s also called an antidactylus.