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Thursday 11 July 2013

Limericks.


LI: To write limericks

SC: It must have 5 lines lines, the last word of the first and last line must be the same and all the last words of each line must rhyme.

Limericks are nonsensical 5 line rhymes that were made popular hundreds of years ago by Edward Lear.  
Here is an example:


                     There was an old person of Pisa,
Whose daughters did nothing to please her;
She dressed them in gray, and banged them all day,
Round the walls of the city of Pisa.



There once was a girl named Jill
Who freaked out at the sight of a drill
she brushed everyday
so her dentist would say
Your teeth are quite perfect. No bill.

 
There once was a lady named Sue
Who had nothing whatever to do
And who did it so badly
I thought she would gladly
Have stopped before she was through.


                                                                       
There once was a guy
that had a fly as a nerd
and when that guy had a vine,
the fly died, and the guy cried
only to find that it was a lie.

There was an old man from Peru,
who dreamed he was eating his shoe,
He awoke in the night,
with a terrible fright,
and found out that it was quite true.

There once was a fellow named Tim
whose dad never taught him to swim.
He fell off a dock
and sunk like a rock.
And that was the end of him.

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