A limerick (/ˈlɪmərɪk/ LIM-ər-ik) is a form of verse that appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century. In combination with a refrain, it...

Look up Limerick or limerick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Limerick is a city in Ireland. Limerick may also refer to: Limerick (poetry), a form of...

include the limerick, the clerihew, and the double dactyl. While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel, or thought of as poetry composed casually...

County Limerick (Irish: Contae Luimnigh) is a western county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises...

not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. Poetry analysis is almost as old as poetry itself, with distinguished practitioners going back...

Children's music Children's song Counting-out game Fingerplay Folklore Limerick (poetry) List of nursery rhymes Oral tradition Previously Mother Goose meant...

Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term for both...

Light poetry or light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous. Light poems are usually brief, can be on a frivolous or serious subject, and often...

'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...

Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic...