- To write a limerick, come up with a 5-line poem where the first, second, and fifth line rhyme with each other and the third and fourth line rhyme with each other.
- No one is completely sure where the name “limerick” comes from, but it is probably a reference to the city or county of Limerick in western Ireland.
- The history of limerick poems is detailed below and due to the location of Limerick in Ireland the Irish Limericks are often found to be the most popular.
- While covering most things about literature can be tedious and rigid, having the levity of limerick poems thrown in is like a breath of fresh air.
- A limerick is a humorous poem that follows a fixed structure of five lines. It follows a rhyme scheme of AABBA and makes use of anapestic meter.
- The defining "foot" of a limerick’s meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but limericks are also considered amphibrachic (ta-TUM-ta).
- Compact and easy-going, Limerick is best explored on foot. Follow the riverside walkway and it’ll bring you through the old potato market up to St Mary’s Cathedral.
- Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!' One of Lear’s funnier attempts is “Limerick No. 80” from that same volume
- The county seat is the administratively independent city of Limerick. The county’s northern boundary, with County Clare, is the River Shannon and its estuary.
- What the place didn't spawn was limerick verse, which evolved in 18th-century England, presumably from a nonsense lyric that referred to the city or county.