Limerick University

(the real Limerick University)
For today's storytime, Mike and I wrote Limericks (named for a county in Ireland named Limerick, therefore "festive" enough for the holiday). We wrote enough for each of the kids we assumed would be there (we had a few extra generics, just in case someone new came). Kids sure light up when you use their names. I got lots of giggles today. Here are the ones we wrote for Adelyn and Michael.

Adelyn once was a girl
Who loved all day to do twirls
But when she got dizzy
Her eyes got real busy
And her hair raised up in curls

I knew a young boy named Michael
Who rode on a motorcycle
He forgot how to stop
And his tires went, POP!
That cycle he had to recycle

Write your own! Here's the rules (at least the way Kansas Univesity teaches it):

Limerick: Rhyming and syllable pattern:

A (7, 8 or 9 syllables*)
A (7, 8 or 9)
B (5 or 6)
B (5 or 6)
A (7, 8 or 9)

A's rhyme, and B's rhyme. If the first line is 7 syllables, the second and fifth lines require the same meter (seven syllables each, too); if the third line is 5, the fourth line must be 5, too.