Stories about ‘Limerick Poem’

By Joe Taylor -

limericks, limerick poem, funny limericks, naughty limericks, writing limericks

No-one knows for certain how the name of an Irish Mid-Western city came to be associated with the short, irreverent, often bawdy verses of the limerick.

Some people believe that it came from the school of poets who lived in Croom, Co. Limerick in the nineteenth century; their specialisation was short satiric verses. The genre became a fixture in Victorian times, due in no small part to the read more...


By Jan Rice -

To be a Limerick, a verse MUST have:

Five lines

Lines one, two, and five MUST each have exactly three metric feet

Lines three and four MUST each have exactly two metric feet

The metric feet MUST be anapests ( da da DUM ) although the leading foot of each line may be an iamb ( da DUM) and the last foot of each line may have a trailing unaccented syllable ( da da DUM da). The classic read more...