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Name: <  >
Class: <  >
Date: <  >

Limericks


Limericks have a definite rhythm, like a chant. They're also a bit of a puzzle, like an acrostic. The puzzle is that you must rhyme the first, second, and fifth lines. The third and fourth lines must also rhyme, and must also be shorter. For example:

There once was a lazy young fool
Who never wanted to go to school
He never would rake
But preferred to eat cake
And he cried that the world was so cruel

How many lines are in this limerick? If you counted five, that's correct. Notice that the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme and are also the longest. The third and fourth lines also rhyme, and they are the shortest.

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Here are a few more limericks that are incomplete. Complete the limericks by typing a rhyming word between the angle brackets. 

There once was a young man named Bob
Who loved to eat corn on the <  >
He ate at a fast pace
There was corn on his <  >
And that's why we call him The Slob

If you really like to crunch
Then eat potato chips for <  >
Go on a jag
Eat a big <  >
And enjoy your munch crunch lunch

There once was a girl named Sue
Who was looking for something to <  >
She went to work
As a soda jerk
And now she'll make sodas for <  >

There once was a man from out back
Who favored kangaroo for a snack
Once he began to hop
He could not <  >
Unless you gave him a proper whack

Oh I love the slow slow flow
Of the gently blown white <  >
The stars so bright
In the sparkling night
All around silent icicles grow

There once was a girl named Nicole
Who loved to ice skate, to ski, and to bowl
She liked to play sports
Of all kinds and sorts
And at golf was an ace in the <  >

There once was a cat named Irv
Who had a great deal of nerve
He walked on the wall
But took a great <  >
Cuz he missed the swerve in the <  >

A shark swims across the <  >
Many more times than three
It loves to splash
It loves to slash
I hope it never eats <  >


Name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)


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Sometimes a list of rhyming words helps you think about a limerick. Below are the "ush" and "ight" word families.

Use the rhyming words in the "ight" family for the endings to the first, second, and fifth lines. Then use the words in the other word family for the shorter third and fourth lines, which also must rhyme.


Words in the "ight" Word Family

airtight
alight
all right
birthright
blight
bright
bullfight
candlelight
copyright
daylight
delight
downright
eyesight
fight
flashlight
flight
floodlight
insight
knight
light
limelight
midnight
might
prizefight
right
searchlight
sight
skylight
slight
starlight
sunlight
tight
tonight


Words in the "ush" Word Family

blush
brush
crush
flush
gush
hush
inrush
lush
mush
onrush
plush
rush
sagebrush
slush
thrush
toothbrush


"ight" "ush" Limericks

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Share your limericks with your friends. Listen to their limericks. Work together to improve your limericks. Return to your poems on other days and revise them.

When you have some limericks you especially like, arrange to have them printed in an anthology.


If you haven't done so already, name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)

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