limerick

Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023

For today’s homework, try to mix and match a format, a style and a topic — like, “Write a limerick in the style of Snoop Dogg about global warming.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Angry Dan, from Walthamstow, east London, is known for his vibrant colours and memorable rhymes - writing an original limerick which he paints on each mural.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022

He asked the student to read a limerick about a monster-like machine that “munches up socks by the pair.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Madeline: "Good limerick" is a contradiction in terms.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Click here to skip down to the winning limericks.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022

Essentially, raucous processions involving songs and the rattling of cacophonous instruments, the performance of short plays and bawdy limericks, and the burning of effigies occurred outside the homes of the accused.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021

She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021

Mr. Bell — in normal times — would accompany his twin 10-year-olds, Samuel and Benjamin, to a special music school near Lincoln Center, connecting with them by playing trivia games and coming up with limericks.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2020

Olly: haikus are awful, they're just less fun limericks Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon