Good stuff, Frank and John and Gail. This is a challenging assignment. I think it would take at least four or five limericks to comprehensively summarize most Dickens novels.
This is still rough, though it may remain so:
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
The times were the best, but the worst.
They were blessed, but they also were cursed.
They were good, they were bad,
They were happy, yet sad,
They were all things, and all things reversed.
Sidney Carton looked just like Darnay,
And the two men loved Lucie, yet they
Were friends even though
Lucie chose as her beau
Charles Darnay and told Carton "No way!"
But Carton still loved her. That's why
When Darnay had been sentenced to die
Carton gave up his life
So that Charles Darnay's wife
Would be happy. Mon dieu, what a guy!
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