What's a limerick?
A limerick is a poetic form that can be particularly fun to read and to write. Limericks are often humorous.
Limericks consist of five lines. The rhyme scheme is aabba. In other words, Lines One, Two, and Five all rhyme with each other, and Lines Three and Four rhyme with each other (in some limericks, Lines One and Five end with the same word and rhyme with Line Two).
This five line poem also follows a syllable count.
Line 1: 7-10 syllables Line 2: 7-10 syllables
Line 3: 5-7 syllables
Line 4: 5-7 syllables
Line 5: 7-10 syllables
Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman reads from The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, a book whose fanciful world includes owls, pussycats, pobbles with no toes, and the lands where the Jumblies live.
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