On Poetic Forms, Nr.02 (Limericks: Theory & Practice)

        
LIMERICKS - THE THEORY        
       
1.(a)   A Limerick's stuck with five lines        
2.(a)   with three of them having to rhyme -        
3.(b)   the other two too        
4.(b)   must rhyme with a view        
5.(a)   to finalise something sublime.        
       
       
     
LIMERICKS - THE PRACTICE        
     
Cleanliness is next to Godlessness    
     
Try keeping a Limerick clean          
and you're stuffed (you know what I mean)          
for Limerick lines          
have singular minds -          
disorderly, bawdy, obscene.