what is a limerick?

Question

It says in my worksheet: write a limerick following its pattern and rhyme scheme.

Answer 1

limerick, type of humorous verse. It is always short, often nonsensical, and sometimes ribald. Of unknown origin, the limerick is popular rather than literary and has even been used in advertising. The rhyme scheme of most limericks is usually aabba, as in the following example:

There was an old man from Peru,
Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
[U+00A0][U+00A0]He woke in a fright
[U+00A0][U+00A0]In the middle of the night
And found it was perfectly true.

Answer 2

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.

EXAMPLE
There was a young lady from Hyde,
Who ate a green apple and died.
While her lover lamented,
The apple fermented,
And made cyder inside her inside.

Answer 3

A limerick is a short, often humorous and ribald poem developed to a very specific structure.

Example: There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket

Answer 4

a limerick is a light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba.

did you mean =
Limerick (city, Republic of Ireland),
Limerick (county, Republic of Ireland),
Alison Limerick (Electronica Artist)
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