Limericks

Grades 3-6

1. Limericks

2. Definition
A limerick is a light hearted
humorous poem.
A limerick always has the rhyming scheme
A-A-B-B-A
line 1,2 & 5 rhyme with each other
and lines
3 & 4 rhyme with each other

3. Line 1:“Hickory, dickory, dock, A
Line 2:The mouse ran up the clock. A
Line 3:The clock struck one, B
Line 4: And down he run, B
Line 5:Hickory, dickory, dock.” A
Example

5. “There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!’”

12. Limerick #1
Limerick #2
Limerick 3#
How to write limerick.

13. There was a man from Ealing
Who liked to hang from the _________.
He said, ‘ I can’t wear a hat.
But I hang like a ______
And it’s certainly a wonderful ________.

14. And another one…
*Did you know
that limericks can be put to
song?