Identify a Limerick (3.R.1.4)

Surfing for Jane is a must,

But sharks she simply won't trust;

She puts on her armor,

So they can't harm her,

though now she struggles with rust.​

A limerick is a five-line poem that is most often humorous. It contains one stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA.

3.R.1.4- Identify types of poems: free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick.

Surfing for Jane is a must,

But sharks she simply won't trust;

She puts on her armor,

So they can't harm her,

though now she struggles with rust.​

3.R.1.4- Identify types of poems: free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick.

Surfing for Jane is a must,

But sharks she simply won't trust;

She puts on her armor,

So they can't harm her,

though now she struggles with rust.​

3.R.1.4- Identify types of poems: free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick.

​line 1

​line 2

​line 3

​line 4

​line 5

​A

A

B

B

A​

rhyme

scheme​

Edward Lear was a British poet who lived about 200 years ago. As a young teenager, he was forced to earn a living. Lear turned to selling his artwork. Later in life, he sold the limericks he wrote and illustrated. Limericks actually began as part of nursery rhymes but became more popular when Lear published "The Book of Nonsense".

3.R.1.4- Identify types of poems: free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick.

​Limerick: There was an Old Man with a flute

by Edward Lear​

​

There was an Old Man with a flute,

A serpent ran into his boot;

But he played day and night,

Till the serpent took flight,

And avoided that man with a flute.​

3.R.1.4- Identify types of poems: free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick.

​Limerick: There was an Old Man with a flute

by Edward Lear​

​

1 There was an Old Man with a flute, A

2 A serpent ran into his boot; A

3 But he played day and night, B

4 Till the serpent took flight, B

5 And avoided that man with a flute.​ A

​ONE

STANZA

ONLY!​