What is National Limerick Day?
Edward Lear, an English artist, illustrator, writer, and poet, was born on May 12th, 1812 – Jan. 29, 1888). National Limerick Day, May 12th, is commemorated annually on May 12th. Lear is best known for his literary nonsense in poetry, prose, and limericks.
The day also commemorates the limerick poem. In 1846, Edward Lear's book "Book of Nonsense" in Limerick was popularized in Limerick poems. A limerick is a short, amusing, nonsense poem. There are five lines in a limerick.. The first two lines rhyme with the fifth line on the fifth line, and the third and fourth line rhyme together, and the third and fourth line rhyme together.
The Limerick also has a particular rhythm that is officially described as an apestic trimeter..
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY DYING TO GO TO THE RIGHT LADY.
By Edward Lear
