How many lines are in a limerick poem?

Answer 1

5 lines.
Lines 1,2,and 5 rhyme with eachother.
Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with eachother.

Answer 2

5

Answer 3

By now, you surely know that a limerick has 5 lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme, as do lines 3 and 4. But unlike one of the responses, lines 3&4 do NOT rhyme with the other 3 lines.

Answer 4

5

Answer 5

I believe a Limerick has 5 lines

Answer 6

There are 5 lines in a limerick.The pattern stress per line is 3-3-2-2-3.

there WAS an old MAN from PawTUCKet
who CARried his COAT in a BUCKet.
he NEVer could TELL
when NEAR to a WELL,
if THERE would be WAter to DUCK it.

This is a silly rhyme but maybe you can see the rhyme scheme of a limerick by reading it and accenting the capitalized words.

Answer 7

Variants of the form of poetry referred to as Limerick poems can be traced back to the fourteenth century English history. Limericks were used in Nursery Rhymes and other poems for children. But as limericks were short, relatively easy to compose and bawdy or sexual in nature they were often repeated by beggars or the working classes in the British pubs and taverns of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventh centuries. The poets who created these limericks were therefore often drunkards! Limericks were also referred to as dirty.

Limericks consist of five anapaestic lines.
Lines 1, 2, and 5 of Limericks have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another.
Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.

There was a young fellow named perkin
Who was always jerkin his gherkin
His father said perkin
Stop jerkin your gherkin
Your gherkins fer ferkin not jerkin

Answer 8

well, i've studied about limericks really, and it's all about rhyming...and usually only five lines due to it's beat.

it's rhyming scheme is aabba

like this one:
There was a young lady named Kitty [a]
Whose limerick came out so pretty [a]
All the gents dressed in green [b]
Were unusually keen [b]
To admire her outstanding ditty. [a]

they're fun to read but so hard to make~!

Answer 9

Five.

There was young lady from Lee
Who was stung on the arm by a wasp
When asked 'Did it hurt?'
She said 'No it didn't'
'It's lucky it wasn't a hornet'.

See?

Ok here's some famous ones

http://www.poetry-online.org/limericks.htm

Answer 10

5

There once was a fat little guinea pig,
who cried 'cause he wasn't a skinny pig,
he tried to reduce,
by living on juice,
and now he's a regular, mini-pig!
I wrote that, enjoy!