What is a limerick and how do you make one?

Question

Ive been given homework to make a limerick poem

and i have no idea on how!!!

Answer 1

A limerick is five lines long and rhymes AABBA.  It basically goes:

Be dum be de dum be de dum

Be dum be de dum be de dum

  De dum diddy dum

  De dum diddy dum

Be dum be de dum be de dum!

Since I've completely failed to write one myself, here's a SPike Milligan example:

A man who was asked out to dinner

Came back home looking hungry and thinner

  He said 'Don't look baffled

  The dinner was raffled

And somebody else was the winner'

Answer 2

A five line poem wait a specific rhythm pattern.

Some examples are:

There was a young fellow named Bill

Who swallowed a nuclear pill

When the doctor said "cough"

The darn thing went off

And they found his head in Brazill

and

There was a young lady from Riger

Who smiled as she rode on a tiger

The tiger returned

The young lady inside

And the smile on the face of the tiger..

The last one isn't quite correct but you get the idea.

Answer 3

A sometimes bawdy five-line poem with the rhyme scheme aabba and the cadence of the following:

There once was a fetching young maid

Who rode off with the Second Crusade

She dated a Saracen

Just for comparison

And liked what she found so she stayed.

There's mine. Now yours??

Answer 4

A five-line, humorous (silly) poem. Check this out:

http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/ys/MISC/HOWWR...

or this:

http://www.poetryamerica.com/Limerick.as...

or this:

http://www.ehow.com/how_3332_write-limer...

And use your imagination!

Hope it helped, good luck =]

Answer 5

A five line poem - lines one two and five rhyme, as do lines three and four. Thus:

There was an old woman from Leeds

Who swallowed a packet of seeds

In less than an hour

Her t*ts were a flower,

And her b*m was covered in weeds.

They are often a bit blue btw. (The limerick packs laughs anatomical. In space that is quite economical, But the good ones I've seen, So seldom are clean, And the clean ones so seldom are comical).

I am sure there are clean ones - just can't think of any at the moment  (A policeman from Clapham Junction, had equipment that just wouldn't function, For the rest of his Life, He fooled his poor wife, ...  no,no).

There was a young girl from Cape Cod

who thought little kids came from God

But it wasn't the Almighty

who lifted her nighty

It was Roger the Lodger , the s*d.

There was a young man from Devizes

Whose balls were of different sizes,

One was so small

It was no good at all,

And the other won several prizes

An accident really uncanny

Befell a respectable granny:

She sat down in a chair

While her false teeth were there

And bit herself in the f***y.

There was an old pirate named Bates

Who was learning to rumba on skates.

He fell on his cutlass,

Which rendered him nutless

And practically useless on dates.

You should be getting the idea by now. Notice they all have the same and quite distinctive rhythm pattern. Subject wise anything goes - but the last line should work in the manner of a punchline, and should be rather more respectable than the ones I recall (Really, I shock myself sometimes).

Answer 6

There once was a boy named Trever - 8  A

Who wanted to live forever - 8  A

he stood on his head - 5 B

and then he was dead - 5 B

Now that wasn't very clever. -8 A

The numbers refer to the syllable count, the letters to the rhyming scheme, these are essential.

Answer 7

Five line poem.

Check it out.