In article et,
jo4hn wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:
[application of verbiage-icide]
There are many other corruptions, but they violate the basic form of the
Limerick -- lines 1, 2, and 5 must have 3 groups of matched syllables.
and lines 3 and 4 must have 2 groups of matced syllables.

A wonderful / bird is the / pelican,
His beak will hold / more than his / belican.
He can take / in his beak
Food enough / for a week,
Damned if I / see how the / helican.

There was a young bard from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When told it was so
He said, "Yes I know,
But I make it a rule to always try to get as many words into the last
line of a limerick as I possibly can."


My two favorites:

"There was a sweet lass from Wat'loo,
whose limericks did end on line two."


"There was a young man from Verdun."