Mr. Abebika Kratoponoko Prizzikalo Kattefello Ablegorabalus

The symbol that appears after the word "fate" in the last stanza is apparently what this website does when it can't match the formatting of the original work. The symbol should be an em dash.

There once was a man who wrote limericks

Whose knack for nonsense was prolific

Yet 'fore his epiphany

Gaining fame parrot-painting

His move to landscapes was deliberate.

Searching for scenery the world over

Neurology's exacted and branded loner

Kept "The Demon" a secret

For in seizure explicit

They'd have locked him up 'fore he got closer.

Now as his faculties were declining

And "The Morbids" ever undermining

Painting briefly laid aside

An absurd life to abide

Returning him to his earlier writing.

Cutting his teeth on Lord Stanley's kin

Stirring Knowsley Hall to stitches therein

'Neath chandeliers a'lighting

Magnum opus inditing

"A Book of Nonsense" ripe for the tellin.'

From thereon his writing sparked mirth, split sides,

Outwardly merrymaking, riding the tides

Inmost, an imposter, safe,

Lone, eluding Oscar's fate�"

Death by a thousand Victorian knives.