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My talk is going to be about Limericks: What is a limerick? A limerick is a five-lined poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a, a, b, b, a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's. How do Limericks get formed? It's really easy to form a limerick; all you need is to follow the anapaest. Begin by choosing a location or character. It's usually easier to start of with sentences such as "There was a young man from Peru" or "There was a young boy from the south". You should then, think of words...

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