How To Write A Limerick Worksheet

By: Janine Suvak

National Limerick Day is May 12, so get ready for some silly wordplay! Limericks are a form of poetry with a very specific cadence and rhyming structure, but most importantly they should make you laugh.

Fun worksheets to write limericks and color

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This full color limerick worksheet for kids can be printed on an 8 1/2 x 11 inch standard piece of paper from your home or classroom printer: How To Write A Limerick Worksheet

This worksheet was intentionally designed in black and white to save printer ink: Limerick Worksheet Coloring Page

Download and print our worksheets that make writing limericks easy and fun

Where do limericks come from?

National Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of English writer and artist Edward Lear, who first introduced these silly poems in his “Book of Nonsense” that was published in the 1800’s.

It is thought that the name comes from a popular song of the time called “Won’t You Come To Limerick”, where Limerick is a city in Ireland.

Limericks are silly poems that are as fun to write as to read

How to Write a Limerick

Similar to other forms of poetry, limericks have a special structure:

• Limericks always have five lines
• The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other
• The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other (but not with lines 1, 2 and 5)
• The first, second and fifth lines have a total of eight or nine syllables each
• The third and fourth lines have five or six syllables each
• The last line is the funniest, often acting like the punch line of a joke.

Limericks have their own rules for meter, or how the syllables are stressed in each lines. Read the following lines out loud, with less emphasis on the ‘da’s’ and more emphasis on the ‘DUM’s’:

• line 1: da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
• line 2: da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
• line 3: da DUM da da DUM
• line 4: da DUM da da DUM
• line 5: da DUM da da DUM da da DUM

It’s almost like song! You might even recognize it because many nursery rhymes have a similar cadence to them. 

Here’s a classic example:

Now you try it!

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