Limericks

• Limerick: "A fixed light-verse form of five generally anapestic lines rhyming AABBA. Edward Lear, who popularized the form, fused the third and fourth lines into a single line with internal rhyme" (Poetry Foundation). 

• Examples
• Five Lines



Dylan Meconis: http://www.dylanmeconis.com/portfolio/illustration-limericks/



• "A Young Lady of Lynn"
• "A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett"
• "How awkward when playing with glue"

• Four Lines
• "The was an Old Man with a Beard"

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)

• Let's hunt a pest...an anapest.
• Definition
• William Tell Overture Overtaken by Mom (youtube; compliments of per. 3)