What is Limerick?

Limerick (মজাদার ছড়া):

(i) A funny poem of five lines called limerick.

(ii) Limerick (কৌতুকপূর্ণ পঞ্চপদী ছড়া/কবিতা): A Form of light verse (পাঁচ লাইনের হাস্য-রসাত্মক কবিতা/ ছড়াকে Limerick বলে।

It is a humorous verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba. The third and fourth lines are usually shorter than the other three.

Limerick এর একটি উদাহরণ:

There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who said, 'It is just as I feared!

Two Owls and a Hen,

Four Larks and a Wren,

Have all built their nests in my beard!

(From "There was an Old Man with a Beard" by Edward Lear) Ans: B