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What is a limerick?

What is a limerick? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically has a 9–9–6–6–9 cadence.
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The older children have the opportunity to show off their creative skills by composing a limerick based on the Millrace Hotel, who are the sponsors of this competition.
If the limerick moonlighters must have been tried in Cork there would have been no moonlighting.
Perceiving the underlying metre of the limerick is not just a simple linear experience.
A limerick novelist has just launched her second novel, a tale of a bored housewife with a dark secret.
And I was trying to illustrate that with a more familiar example, which would be something like the repetition of a limerick.
Since I don't know any good shanties or sea songs, I hope a limerick will do.

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