A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming.
I'll start off with an example
There was once a young Jaffa called Teal'c
Whose mother said drink lots of milk
You'll grow big and strong
with arms and legs long
Then enemy of the Gou'ald you may bilk*
means evade
Hint you can use online rhyme dictionaries to help
finish the last three lines then you start a new one with the first two
There was once a Colonel called Jack
Who thought fishing was quite the crack...
I'll start off with an example
There was once a young Jaffa called Teal'c
Whose mother said drink lots of milk
You'll grow big and strong
with arms and legs long
Then enemy of the Gou'ald you may bilk*
means evade
Hint you can use online rhyme dictionaries to help
finish the last three lines then you start a new one with the first two
There was once a Colonel called Jack
Who thought fishing was quite the crack...
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