This site gives a good description of limerick. Features details about the rhyme scheme and the different forms of limericks. References to the bawdy nature of this verse form.

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing limerick poems. An example of a limerick poem is provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.

In this lesson plan, students will consider Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.

Part 2 of this tutorial on limerick writing demonstrates the importance of form (meter and rhyme) in limerick poetry using the exemplary and amusing work of Edward Lear.

This site gives examples of some limerick myths.

A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, and texts to use while learning about limericks.

Defines limericks and shows an example.

A brief explanation of the structure of a limerick. Includes an example and links a Brainpop video as an example. Site also contains a link to a You-Tube video.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the poetry form of a limerick. Students determine the characteristics by analyzing sample limericks for rhyming pattern, line length and stressed syllables. As assessment,...

Move the five limerick parts into the correct order to create a completed poem. After three examples, students are encouraged to write their own limerick.

This site offers the text and audio of the limerick "The Floating Old Man" by Edward Lear. You can listen to the poem online or download it.

This site offers the text and audio of the limerick "There Was a Young Lady of Norway" by Edward Lear. You can listen to the poem online or download it.

[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This is the text for a limerick entitled "There was a Young Lady of Portugal" by Edward Lear.

[This site offers the text and audio of the limerick "There Was an Old Man in a Tree" by Edward Lear. You can listen to the poem online or download it.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book More Nonsense by Edward Lear (1888), a book of illustrated nonsense limerick poems.

[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and the audio of the limerick "There Was a Young Lady of Parma" by Edward Lear.

This site offers the text and audio of the poem "There Was a Young Lady Whose Chin" by Edward Lear. You can listen to the limerick online or download it.

A detailed travel map of Ireland in 1908, showing all or portions of counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. The map shows first class and secondary roads, railways, cities, towns, ports, rivers, lakes, and terrain features...

A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Limerick."

Wide Angle video reports on the sale of The Sacred Heart Church in central Limerick, Ireland as the influence of the Catholic Church on Irish society dwindles. [3:21]

This site tells what a limerick is and, gives a few instructions on how to write one. It also includes info on the traditions of the limerick.

[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site provides the text and audio of the poem "There Was a Young Girl of Majorca" by Edward Lear.

[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "There Was a Young Lady of Hull" by Edward Lear.

[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site features the text and audio of the poem "There Was an Old Man of Corfu" by Edward Lear.