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===================================================== A Limerick is: . a five-line humorous poem: with regular metre and rhyme patterns, often dealing with a risqué subject and typically opening with a line such as ‘There was a young lady called Jenny’. Lines one, two, and five rhyme with each other and have three metrical feet, and lines three and four rhyme with each other and have two metrical feet, giving the poem a catchy bouncy rhythm.
Definition - based on an extract from Microsoft® Encarta® Premium Suite © Microsoft Corporation.
. Remember the Boston Tea Party? The British were pompous and farty They forgot all the facts Of intolerable acts and their wigs made them look pretty tarty. . ................................................ [ Percy Bysshe Shelley - aged 12¾ ]
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A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's.
Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke." As you work with limericks, remember to have pun, I mean FUN! Say the following limericks out loud and clap to the rhythm.
A funny poem, with 5 lines.
Rhyme pattern: 1 = 3 beats, rhyme a 2 = 3 beats, rhyme a 3 = 2 beats, rhyme b 4 = 2 beats, rhyme b 5 = 3 beats, rhyme a
The last line is meant to be almost like the punchline of a joke.
Hmm...now that I look at it, my answer is almost a summary of the other 2 answers. It's just way shorter and lacks all the professional language and fancy words. :)
hahaha i like that one
where did you get it?
