Assertion: true limerick | /r/HasProperty | obscene
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene, and cites similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw, describing the clean limerick as a "periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity".
text: I say almost all the rules, because the foremost limerick scholar maintained that the true limerick is always obscene, which this one is not.
text: Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene, and cites similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw, describing the clean limerick as a "periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity".