Limerick

Limericks

Limericks are meant to be funny. They are a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of a Limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.

Example:

from The World is Round

by Gertrude Stein

Here I am.

When I wish a dish.

I wish a dish of ham.

When I wish a little wish.

I wish that I was where I am.

There was a Young Lady of Norway

By Edward Lear

There was a Young Lady of Norway,

Who casually sat on a doorway;

When the door squeezed her flat,

She exclaimed, 'What of that?'

This courageous Young Lady of Norway.

My Example:

The Turtle 

By Amy Jorgenson

There once was a turtle named Dan.

Who ate fish from a can.

But the fish must be from the land,

To be dusted in so much sand.

They were from that nice old man.