A limerick is a five-line poem; the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, and are somewhat long (three feet) and the third & fourth lines rhyme and are a bit shorter (two feet).
They are pretty much always funny, and almost always obscene. And they most frequently start "There was a young man from ..." or something along those lines. Probably the most famous limerick starts "There once was a man from Nantucket," but I'm not going to post it here. ;-)
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Re: Baj
Date: 2007-07-24 07:27 am (UTC)They are pretty much always funny, and almost always obscene. And they most frequently start "There was a young man from ..." or something along those lines. Probably the most famous limerick starts "There once was a man from Nantucket," but I'm not going to post it here. ;-)