Limerick, Free Verse and Ode Poems

What part of a Limerick poem describes or introduces the main character?

• first line
• last line
• 3rd line
• 2nd line

Which choice is a Limerick Poem?

• There was an Old Man of Nantucket

  Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

  His daughter, called Nan,

  Ran away with a man,

  And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

• That at the last, and in short time, I spide,

  Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,

  Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.

  Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie

  Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.

• Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes

  And loving spirits in its plenisphere

  Which bear in strange delight on my heart’s care

  Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.

What rhyme scheme does a limerick poem have?

• ABBAA
• AABBA
• ACAABA
• ABBBAB

What is a limerick?

• 14 line poems that are broken into 4 or 2 stanzas
• Seventeen syllables in 3 lines
• Poems that are conveyed through their graphic shape
• A funny poem that is 5 lines long

What culture started writing limericks first?

• Greek

• French

• Janpanese

• Irish

A limerick has ___ lines

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 9

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

• 4

• 1

• 3

• 6

Limericks are usually serious poems.

• True

• False

Finish the limerick:

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!

• Chicken Little

• Goldilocks And The Three Bears

• Snow White

• Sleeping Beauty