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What is a limerick?

What is a limerick? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically has a 9–9–6–6–9 cadence.
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Since I don't know any good shanties or sea songs, I hope a limerick will do.
Outside the limerick form, amphibrachs used to be quite rare in English language verse.
Making its first appearance a little over a century ago, the lure of the limerick is such that it has grown to become one of the world's most popular verse forms.
A limerick novelist has just launched her second novel, a tale of a bored housewife with a dark secret.
If the limerick moonlighters must have been tried in Cork there would have been no moonlighting.
The older children have the opportunity to show off their creative skills by composing a limerick based on the Millrace Hotel, who are the sponsors of this competition.

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