Narrator: Professor Rufus Padoofus is going to recite a limerick for us.
Professor: Hello. Yes, where did I put it…?
Ah yes, it’s here in my beard…
There once was a man named Mark,
Who loved to get dressed in the dark,
He wore his hat upside down,
Had shoes like a clown,
And also liked to eat sandwiches.
Narrator: Hang on professor, that last line was all wrong!
Professor: What? I wrote it myself!
Narrator: The first, second and fifth lines have to have the same rhythm and rhyme with each other.
The same goes for the third and fourth lines.
Like this…
An old man was really quite weird,
Cos he always dropped food in his beard,
There was fried egg and jelly,
My dear it was smelly,
When it fell off then everyone cheered.
Professor: Ah. Yes.
Description
Limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern. The first, second and fifth lines have the same rhythm and rhyme. The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other too.
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