Limerick Poems

How many lines should a limerick have?

• 7

• No limit

• 5

• 10

The rhyming pattern of a limerick is....

• AABBCC

• ABCABC

• AABBA

• AAAABBBB

Suppose that you've written three lines of your limerick and it looks like this:

"I thought that I saw a gazelle

It smelled of a really bad smell

I gave it to Terry..."

Why would "Who blew a raspberry" be a good choice for the fourth line?

• Raspberry rhymes with Terry.

• It sounds quite funny.

• The number of syllables matches the third line.

• All of these are correct.

The rhythm of each line is also important. If you read your limerick out loud, which of these activities will best help you see if the rhythm sounds right?

• Writing

• Dancing

• Cooking

• Clapping

A limerick is a five line poem with rhymes in line ____, 2, and 5 and then another rhyme in lines 3 and 4.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

True or False: Limericks are usually serious poems.

• True

• False

There once was a man named Greg,

Who tried to break open an egg.

He kicked it around,

It fell to the ground,

____________________________.

• And no one made a sound.

• And found that he'd broken a leg.

Which fairy tale is this limerick about?

There once was a cheeky blonde chick,

Who had a gold locks of curls -thick,

Inside the bear's house she went

Lots of time in there she spent

Bears found her and ate her up quick!

• Snow White

• Chicken Little

• Sleeping Beauty

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears

What is a limerick poem?

• 14 line poems that are broken into 4 or 2 stanzas

• Poems that are conveyed through their graphic shape

• Seventeen syllables in 3 lines

• A funny poem that is 5 lines long

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which lines of a Limerick poem are longer?

• Lines 1, 2, & 5

• Lines 1, 3, & 5

• Lines 3, 4, & 5

• Lines 2, 3, & 5