examples of limericks

limericks
A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. ... LIMERICKS. Lesson 23 ... Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's. Limericks are meant to be funny ... As you work with limericks, remember to have pun, I mean ...
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/lim

Lickity-Split-Limericks
... Limericks! By Mrs. Hendrie's 4/5th Grade and Ms. Bell's 5th Grade. What do you get when you invite students to write limericks ...
http://millpark.ddouglas.k12.or.us/limerick.html

Silly Limericks for Kids
Silly Limericks for Kids. by. Sarah Fanny. Back. Imagine a skunk who proposes, To his true love, surrounded by roses. It may turn out just fine, When she falls for his line, But I wonder if flowers have noses? An old moose of a hundred and two,
http://theblarneywell.com/silly_limericks.htm

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Forms of Poetry for Children
Forms of Poetry for Children. Many different forms of verse are included in traditional nursery rhymes, as stories, riddles and Examples are: a. Story, as Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark! b. Games & verses, as Pease Porridge Hot. c.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm

Limericks
Limericks. A limerick is a very structured poem that can be catagorized as "short but sweet." They are usually humerous, and are composed of 5 lines, in an aacca rhyming pattern.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/lim

Limericks - Poetic Examples from BOB'S BYWAY
These poems provide examples of limericks. There was a young lady of Niger. Who smiled as she rode on a tiger. They returned from the ride. With the lady inside. And the smile on the face of the tiger. ... Because the clever humor of limericks make them a highly popular form of verse, they are ...
http://www.poeticbyway.com/xlimeric.htm

Limericks
Literacy - Learn about limericks! Contains lots of examples and suggested activities. ... Here are some examples of limericks which were kindly contributed by members of uk.education.staffroom. ... familiar with the structure of limericks, they could create some of their own ...
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/limerick.ht

To contribute to this discussion, please join the Club. Whimsical limericks ... Whimsical limericks. There is a type of limerick in which the (usually irregular) SPELLING of the initial ... To add further to Simon's examples of misleadingly-spelled names, I believe ...
http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss1.

Perl Limericks
... Perl Limericks. Use small Perl code examples directly from this document with cut&paste ... very compact code. This document supplies many examples of short Perl programs doing a task ...
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~alounds/PerlLimericks.