This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are
anapestic
trochaic
spondaic
dactylic
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A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having a 9–9–6–6–9 cadence.
The correct answer is:
A. Anapestic
A limerick is typically written in anapestic meter, with an unstressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables in each foot. This creates a lively, bouncy rhythm that is characteristic of the limerick form.
limerick, a popular form of short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant metre is anapestic, with two metrical feet in the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others.
Anapest is the answer (A)
