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JOSIE'S POEMS
Limericks
By Josie Whitehead
LET'S DO SOME LIMERICKS
By Josie Whitehead
So what ingredients make a limerick?
Usually guided by the style of verse shown below with its lyrical rhythm, although you don't have to start every limerick with 'There was' etc. The rhythm is what makes the limerick different to other verse.
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See my limericks below and here:
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There was a young woman from Kent
Who spoke with a dreadful accent
'When I want to say ‘better’
It sounds just like ‘fetter’
‘Cos my tonsils are awfully bent.'
Now here is Virginia Knight
Whose hair’s in a terrible plight.
When she chose to be blonde
Her hair didn’t respond
And now it’s incredibly white.
A teacher who comes from Dundee
Said: 'I think you will surely agree:
You’ll sell pizzas better
Or deliver a letter
If you work hard and get a degree.'
A man with a long crooked nose
Said: 'There’s something I ought to disclose:
It is just as I feared
For my extra-long beard
Dangles down and it tickles my toes.'
A certain shopkeeper from Norwich
Ate only pork sausage and porridge.
When he couldn’t get these
Nothing else would quite please
So he kept up his strength with some *borage.
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