Limerick contest

In honour of St Patrick’s Day we held an office Limerick contest!

Your Limerick must have any of these words:

Water, Sun, Teeth, Canada, Dummy, Rhine, shoe.

You don’t need the luck of the Irish to be a good poet!

A limerick is a form of verse, often humorous and sometimes obscene, in five-line, predominantly anapestic^[1] meter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth line rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme. ^[2] The following example is a limerick of unknown origin:

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.^[3]

The form appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century.


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Rhine

There once was a man from the Rhine

Too drunk to ever walk in a line

He always tripped on his feet

Which he thought was quite neat

As the liquor kept him feeling just fine

We always enjoy  a glass of wine

Gewürztraminer from the Rhine.

But the best ones I see

Are all from BC

And some of these are so divine.

There once was a man from the Rhine

who swam the length all the time

though the water was cold

and his toes almost froze

He never complained or whined.

Water

There once was a fellow named Ike

Who was often seen riding his bike.

He drove through the water

Ran over an otter

And fell on his face in the dike.

The water was rough and as it was cold

But the tri-athletes soldiered on so bold

They powered through waves

a warm fire they craved

And a cup of hot cocoa to hold.

Sun

In Vancouver you say it is rainy

Lack of sun can make you go zany.

But stop whining and sniveling

Enough of your driveling

You’re being too much of a painy.

Teeth

There once was a man with no teeth

when his mouth was full did speak

as the food went flying

his guests were all crying

as the mush that he ate really reeked!

Dummy

In old Egypt town there are mummies

the sarcophagi all filled with dummies

the robbers, they took all the loot

gold and trinkets stuffed in their boots

which the archaeologists all thought was crummy!

shoe

There once was a man lost his shoe

He just didn’t know what to do

He looked high and low

With nowhere to go

For stores only sell them in twos!

Canada

In Canada we say sorry a lot

Cause politeness is what we were taught.

So step on my toe

Or stab me with elbow.

It’s my fault even when it is not!

The weather in Canada is very odd

A statement that is really quite broad

Whether winter or summer

It is never a bummer

Cuz the scenery you’ll always applaud