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Limericks.

Limericks.

Date: Feb 02 2011

Topic: Speaking

Author: kokoboko

Lesson

A limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous or nonsense poem.

Limericks - The History
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.

 The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth usually rhyming with one another and having three of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables.

 

 There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

 

 

 

 There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

 

  Would you like to add any limerick or better to make your own one?:)

 

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