- 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.
- 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
- Nobody knows who wrote the first limerick, or why it’s named after a town in Ireland. And most people couldn’t give the technical definition of a limerick.
- A limerick is a poem, often humorous in nature, that consists of five lines in a single stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA.
- The name “Limerick” comes from the county of Limerick in southwest Ireland, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
- A limerick is a short, five-line poem that is always humorous and sometimes crude. The content of these poems is primarily trivial and rarely taken seriously.
- The beauty of the limerick is that anyone can write them. They’re on the edge by nature and tend to leave listeners shaking their heads or blushing.
- 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.
- 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.