Limerick poetry

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Limerick poetry
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Rules for limerick poetry

• has five lines
• is humorous (funny)
• lines 1, 2, and 5 all rhyme
• lines 3 and 4 rhyme
• there is a specific rhythm (see example)

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Limerick Example

• There once was a lady from Nantucket.
• Who lived her whole life in a bucket.
• Her pleasures unknown,
• Were completely thrown,
• When in a mudhole her bucket got stuckit.

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Another Example

• A flea and a fly in a flue.
• Were caught, so what could they do?
• Said the fly, Let us flee.
• Let us fly , said the flea,
• So they flew through a hole in the flue.