Limericks

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Limericks
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Definition

• A limerick is funny poem with a specific pattern
  of rhyme and meter. All limericks have FIVE
  lines.
• A limerick always has the rhyming scheme
• A-A-B-B-A
• (So line 1,2 5 rhyme with each other and lines
  34 rhyme with each other.)

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• There was a young man from Leeds
• Who ate a whole packet of seeds,
• In less than an hour
• His nose was a flower
• And his head was a garden of weeds!

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• There was an old man from Blackheath,
• Who sat down on his set of false teeth.
• He said, in his pain,
• Ive done it again,
• Ive bitten myself underneath.

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There was an old man of Madrid Who ate 65 eggs -
yes, he did! When they asked, Are you faint? He
replied, No, I aint - But I dont feel as well
as I did!
There was once a man of Bengal Who was asked to a
fancy dress ball He said, Will I risk it And go
as a biscuit But a dog ate him up in the hall.
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Can you finish these limericks?
A rocket inventor named Bright Once travelled
much faster than ? He started one day In the
relative way And returned on the previous ?
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Complete this limerick

• There was a man from Ealing
• Who liked to hang from the _________.
• He said, I cant wear a hat.
• But I hang like a ______
• And its certainly a wonderful ________.

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Now make your own

• There was a young ____from ____
• Who
• .
• .
• And