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
