What are limerick poems? These are some of the best limerick examples to find out. The post 12 Famous Limerick Poems and Examples to Spark Your Creativity appeared first on Reader's Digest.

In choosing the winners (one grand prize and 19 runners-up), we favored those that followed the conventional limerick structure (anapestic meter with an AABBA rhyme scheme, for you English majors).

County Limerick is the home of "Angela’s Ashes" author Frank McCourt. "Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir" tells of the author’s life in Limerick, struggling with poverty and his father’s alcoholism.

Limericks seem to have been sung to a popular tune, Will You come up to Limerick?, suggested by a newspaper article from St John in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1880 as the perfect accompaniment to a ...

The Seattle Times is asking readers to submit limericks about Seattle in the Spring.My submission described Seattle from a Bremertonian’s point of view:Love the ferry, the plays and the art,But ...

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