Limericks

Limericks are silly poems that have 5 lines. They are usually funny and don’t make sense. They were made famous by Edward Lear who was a famous author that wrote an entire book of silly limericks.

The 1st, 2nd and 5th line rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables – usually 8 or 9

The 3rd and 4th lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables – usually 5 or 6.

Limericks often start with “There once was a…” or “There was a…”

Here are our limericks that we created:

 

There once was a small kind of dog

Who went for a walk in the fog

Tripped over a nut

And fell on his butt

And started to poop in a bog.

By Ben

 

There once was a man called Wally

Who really needed a dolly

He felt really sad

But never felt bad

He wished that his name was Mollie.

By Jasmine

 

There once was a man in a bar

He tried to get back in his car

He was to drunk

Fell over a skunk

So he did not get very far.

By James

 

There once was a rat nicknamed fat

He liked to carry around bats

Pushed dogs in a bog

Hit them with a log

And went back to sleep on his mat.

By Dylan

 

There once was a very weird dog

He wanted to swim in a bog

But then he got ill

So he took a pill

Then he went to rest on a log!

By Tali

 

Once there was a small black bat

Who swallowed a cute little cat

The bat found a dog

In a sticky bog

He laughed at the dog who was fat.

By Thomasina

 

There once was a little cute dog

He decided to chew on a log

He chewed and he chewed

Then filled up with spew

And then he threw up in a bog.

By Sabienne

 

There once was a man from a crew

He thought he needed a new shoe

But when it arrived

He found it alive

So he thought he needed to spew.

By Abbie

 

There once was a very cool crab

He started to wrok in a lab

But then he got bored

So he quit and got a new job.

By Bethany

 

There once was a very fat cat

He sat on a red and blue mat

He fell on his head

And then he was dead

And then became friends with a bat.

By Ruby

 

Once I was eating Doritos

But i didn’t want to eat those

I chucked them away

On my favourite day

Even when I liked Doritos.

By Poppy

 

There once was a cute little dog

Who very much liked to jog

The day wasn’t good

He really wanted food

So for tea he cooked some frogs

By Ollie

 

There once was a man in a race

Who suddenly ran out of space

He tripped on his bum

And fell up the lum

And that was the end of the race.

By Emma

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