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A limerick is made up of five lines.

Lines 1, 2 and 5 should have between seven and ten syllables and rhyme with each other.

Lines 3 and 4 should have between five and seven syllables and rhyme with each other.

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What is the difference between an ode poem and a limerick poem?

An ode is a long poem. A limerick is always 5 lines with a particular rhyming scheme (AABBA).


In a limerick can the fifth line rhyme with the third and fourth lines?

No, it cannot.The rhyme scheme of a limerick is:aabbaHere the last word of the fifth line rhymes with the last word of the first and second line.


Is sonnet 18 a limerick?

No sonnet is a limerick. Sonnets have 14 lines; limericks have 5. Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter; limericks have a characteristic rhythm consisting of two lines composed of an iamb and two spondees followed by two lines of an iamb followed by a spondee and a last line in the same rhythm as the first. Limericks always have the rhyme scheme aabba. Sonnets are usually ababcdcdefefgg or abbaabbacdecde or some similar scheme. A limerick clearly is not The same kind of poem you thought Without fourteen lines And that pattern of rhymes It's not a sonnet, it's sonnot.


What is the difference between a limerick and a sonnet?

A limerick has fewer lines than a sonnet because a limerick has only five lines with a rhyme scheme that goes A, A, B, B, A whereas a sonnet has fourteen lines and the rhyme scheme goes A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D, E, F, E, F, G, G. A limerick and a sonnet have a different meter. A limerick's meter is an amnibrachaic trimeter (weak, strong, weak, weak, strong, weak, weak, strong)in lines 1, 2 and 5 and a sonnet's meter is an iambic pentameter (weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong) in each line. For example, 'I all alone beweep my outcast state' is a line from a sonnet whereas 'There was an Old Man with a beard' is a line from a limerick. Limericks are often in the third person wheras sonnets are often in first person. Limericks usually have a humorous subject while sonnets mostly have a serious subject.


A limerick is a type of Irish poem True or false?

A limerick poem has five lines and is usually humorous. The first second and fifth lines rhyme and so do the second and third.An example is:There was an old man from PeruWho dreamed he was eating his shoeHe woke in the nightWith a terrible frightAnd found to his shame it was truedude that's from SpongeBob, write your own!Ok then:The was a poem called a limerick,but writing them made people sick,Was ask to write my own,But could not go it alone.So I ask for help like a hick.