Most people like Limericks. They’re fun, usually five lines with a simple AABBA rhyme scheme. I discovered that if you’re not having fun writing limericks, you’re not doing it right.
Limericks are a closed form: Follow the rules. But they make writing and reading them that much more fun.
Lines 1,2, and 5 have 8-9 syllables.
Lines 2 and 5 are usually long
Lines 3 and 4 have 5-6 syllables.
Upon my soul dithering
We three poets slithering
Up and down
Upon the town
And in the morning withering
Resolutions timely made
Honesty not strictly weighed
Past one slips
Another trips
And the year is not stayed
Lamppost coffee is our haunt
Mornings evenings, we do not taunt
Embracing words
We may be nerds
But we meet all our wants
Oh my dear.
“The limerick form is complex
Its contents run chiefly to sex
It burgeons with virgeons
And masculine urgeons
And swarms with erotic effex.” — (from The Limerick, Ed. by G. Legman.)
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