- 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.
- And the section on limericks is simply bizarre: is there a difference between the 'radio limerick' and any other sort?
- The defining "foot" of a limerick’s meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but limericks are also considered amphibrachic (ta-TUM-ta).
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.