Today is National Limerick Day.
Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of Edward Lear (1812-1888). It also, of course, celebrates Limerick poems. Limericks were popularized by Lear in 1846 in his Book of Nonsense.
A limerick is a humorous verse or poem. It is five lines longs. Its name comes from the city of Limerick, Ireland. The first two lines rhyme with the fifth line rhyme. The third and fourth lines rhyme.
( "The Owl and the Pussycat" is one of my favorite Lear poems.)
