Who invented limericks?

Answer 1

A limerick is made up of five lines where the first second and fith lines rhyme with each other and then the third and fourth rhyme with each other this style of writing is known as aabba or referred to as being anapestic which basically means two short syllables followed by one long one

Answer 2

Some say the limericks was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irih town of limerick. However Edward Lear is the best known of limerick writers, and some say he invented the form. However there are many anonymous limericks that are dated back further than Lear's time (the 19th century). So I guess no ones who invented limericks.

Answer 3

The limerick has a long and complicated history as a verseform which no scholar has ever seen fit to research. The English form has clear and unignorable similarities both with the Russian Chashtushka and the Welsh Englyn - and may well have a history reaching back as far as Roman imperial funerary inscriptions.

The limerick was already known as a popular - and frequently obscene - verse form when Edward Lear adopted it to drawing-room morality in his 1895 Book of Nonsense. Once Lear had demonstrated that the Limerick could be unobjectionable - even vacuous - there was a fashion for the form that lasted well over fifty years.

Answer 4

The origins of limericks are unclear, but they are believed to have originated in England in the early 18th century. They were popularized by Edward Lear in his Book of Nonsense published in 1846.

Answer 5

Ever since the begining of time. Even cave men used their own markings as poetry

Answer 6

never

Answer 7

edward lear

Answer 8

30 years