Funny Limericks

How to Write a Limerick

Poetry or verse needs rhyme and rhythm.

Rhyme is where the end words have similar sounds like "right" and "write"; "limerick" and "slimerik" even when they look different. Near rhymes are sometimes used like "poet" and "goat" especially in non-serious verse.

Rhythm is the pattern of stresses in the line. Words have some of their syllables more stressed than others such as: poetry, limerick, stanza, doggerel.

A limerick writer of note
Accused of just acting the goat
Had claimed in defense
It's all a nonsense
I'd rather be known as a poet.

This is the traditional structure of the single verse limerick:

di dum di di dum di di dum         A
di dum di di dum di di dum         A
di dum di di dum                        B
di dum di di dum                        B
di dum di di dum di di dum         A

Try to have the punch line coming last and make it witty and unexpected for the best effect.

Alliteration is where there is a series of words starting with the same sound such as:

A Limerick lady in love
Heard soft cooing sounds from above.
She saw on the ceiling
A sight most revealing,
And grasped at her gob with her glove!

So now you know the right way to write a limerick.

Note: US style spelling used. In UK English defense is spelled defence but both are pronounced the same way.

"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense" - Mark Twain

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THE LIMERICK ISLES

Funny limericks are a joy in themselves but they can also be used to increase learning.This collection The Limerick Isles familiarises readers with placenames in the British Isles. Reading and enjoying the verses helps with reading experience in small steps whilst introducing the young reader to many of the names of places that make up the land they will grow up to live and work in.

OK, prepare to have your socks blown away with non stop, laughter-loaded limericks. The Limerick Isles contains over 600 original, top-quality verses based on UK place-names (including Ireland). Some are written in Scots. Includes a Limerick generator to help you write your own. Download Limerick Generator
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Sample Limericks

A mucky old mannie from MULL
Once tapped out his pipe on a gull.
The bird flew away,
But came back one day,
And emptied itself on his skull!

There was a young lady from COLL
Who wanted to look best of all;
So she covered her knickers
In little red stickers,
But the boys just thought she was droll.

A LONDON young lady of leisure,
Who played the piano for pleasure,
Had sung high and low
Till, reaching high doh,
Her pantaloons pinged with the pressure!

Some LLANGOLLAN lovers of leeks
Had supped on this diet for weeks;
As soon as they stirred
A strange sound was heard...
Which brought a bright blush to both cheeks!

A LIMERICK writer of note,
Accused of, "Just acting the goat,"
Soon claimed in defence,*
"It's all a nonsense -
I'd rather be known as a poet!"

* British spelling.

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Wales is a wonderful land of poets and singers but they also have a sense of fun.

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Quaint place names on Olde England are ideal for limericks to make you chuckle.

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Europe is an important holiday destination and becoming familiar with their place names can be fun and useful

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If you get the limerick bug this book will show you the best way to write your own, plus tips on the new slimerik form.

Enjoy fantastic humor and poetic fun by browsing this collection of funny limerick books. Limericks are an enduring verse form that has brought the magic of rhythm and rhyme to millions!

Limericks Notes

The limerick leaped-laughingly into life on the printed pages of the chapbooks of itinerant traders around 1820. The knuckle-weary chapman sold his woodblock-illustrated, sixteen-page works door-to-door for a well-earned penny. No doubt its spirited-lines, spilling-lightly from the smiling-lips of the people, caused much merriment long before then.

Everyone loves a limerick, and our favorite nursery verse Hickory, Dickory, Dock is one of the oldest known examples to follow the limerick structure. Edward Lear, one-time Art Master to Queen Victoria, published his Book of Nonsense in 1846 and started a limericks craze, leaving many leading writers spellbound. Another limericks bubble erupted in 1907 as the result of competitions in London Opinion.

Today, even the redoubtable JK Rowling recognizes the power of the limerick. Chapter 13, Page 172 (p. 231 some editions) of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets mentions a magic book Sonnets of a Sorcerer that leaves the reader speaking in limericks for ever.

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