Title: Workshop
Course: all activities > Section: All activities

Write a limerick about a person.

Assessment form: Rhyming

Does the limerick rhyme nicely with the first, second and fifth lines rhyming with one another and the third and fourth lines rhyming with one another?

- Only 2 lines rhyme correctly
- 3 or 4 lines rhyme correctly
- All 5 lines rhyme correctly
Assessment form: Rhythm

Do the first, second and fifth lines match, and the third and fourth lines?

- Only 2 lines match
- 3 or 4 lines match
- All 5 lines match correctly
Assessment form: Content

Is the limerick interesting, entertaining or amusing?

- No
- Yes

A limerick

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

The boy from Japan

There once was a boy from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When told this was so,
He said "Yes I know.
"But I always try to get as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."