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A limerick is a five-line cute poem with a distinctive rhythm. The rhyming scheme is AABBA with the longer first, second and fifth lines rhyming and the shorter third and fourth lines rhyming with each other.
The limerick is not the most ‘literary’ of forms, and unlike those other brief verse forms, the tanka and the haiku, it has never been welcomed into the hallowed halls of Great Poetry. But it is a form enjoyed by many people, some of whom perhaps have no time for the more urbane or mannered types of verse.
A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. These silly rhymes were made famous by a man named Edward Leer, an Englishman who wrote The Book of Nonsense in the 1800s.
Our pick of the greatest limericks – selected by Dr Oliver Tearle. The limerick is a poetic form shrouded in mystery: nobody knows why they’re named after Limerick, who invented the form, or when they were first composed.
A limerick (/ ˈ l ɪ m ər ɪ k / LIM-ər-ik) [1] is a form of verse that appeared in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland in the early years of the 18th century. [2] In combination with a refrain , it forms a limerick song , a traditional humorous drinking song often with obscene verses.
A limerick is a poem that consists of five lines in a single stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA. Most limericks are intended to be humorous, and many are considered bawdy, suggestive, or downright indecent.
Many of his nonsense poems make great limericks for kids, but adults enjoy them too. But, if you’re curious about limerick poems — maybe even considering how to write your own, we’re...