LIMERICK
The limerick, whose
name comes from the town in Ireland, is a five-line joke of a poem — witty,
usually involving place names and puns, and most often bawdy, sometimes
unprintable. A limerick is constructed of anapests, the metrical foot
consisting of two unaccented or short syllables followed by one stressed or
long syllable: da-da-dum. The first two lines are three anapests,
the second two are two anapests, and the last line is three, the whole poem
rhymed aabba.
