Limerick
A fixed light-verse form of five generally anapestic lines rhyming AABBA. Edward Lear, who popularized the form, fused the third
and fourth lines into a single line with internal rhyme. Limericks are
traditionally bawdy or just irreverent.
“There was an
Old Man with a Beard”
There was an
Old Man with a beard,
Who said,
"It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a
Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built
their nests in my beard.
“A Young Lady
of Lynn”
There was a
young lady of Lynn,
Who was so
uncommonly thin
That when she essayed
To drink lemonade
She slipped
through the straw and fell in.
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