Freshman English

Limerick

Originally from Ireland, this five-line poem is written with one couplet and one triplet. The rhyme pattern is A A B B A. Limericks are funny little poems that tell a story. The rhythm is catchy, With lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Here is an example...

There was an old man from Peru

who dreamed he was eating his shoe.

He awoke in the night

with a terrible fright,

and found out that it was quite true.

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