Limerick Examples

Limerick Examples Limerick A limerick is a poem that meets the following criteria: Has 5 lines-lines 1, 2, and 5 are longer than 3 and 4. Has a rhyme scheme of AABBA. Has a pattern of unstressed, stressed; unstressed, unstressed, stressed. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 3 "feet" or "beats." Lines 3 and 4 have 2 "feet" or "beats." The basic pattern goes like this: da DEE da da DEE da da DEE da DEE da da DEE da da DEE da DEE da da DEE da DEE da da DEE da DEE da da DEE da da DEE Limericks are typically humorous poems. Examples of Limerick: Hickory dickory dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one The mouse ran down. Hickory, dickory dock. 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. (Edward Lear) And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink. (Shakespeare, in Othello)