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Limerick
The limerick defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.

Alien Limerick Generator
For truly nonsense rhymes, use this page to generate limericks in an unknown alien language -- are they still funny if you have no idea what they mean?

Bibliography of Limerick Books
If you’re crazy for limericks, you’ll want to print out this lengthy book list compiled by Karl Dilcher & take it with you to the bookstore or the library.

Edward Lear Home Page
This is a great collection of biographical information, essays & the nonsense poems & art of the writer most closely associated with the limerick, Edward Lear. Best of all, the site has the complete limericks & selected songs & stories in all their silly illustrated glory.

Limerick.com
Limericks & a limerick competition from the Irish town for which the form is named.

Limericks: Just for the Fun of It
Sexologist & punster Robert W. Birch, Ph.D., is the author of this page of tips for writing limericks, & he has collected limericks both clean & dirty for online reading.

Limerick o’ the Day
“Ah, the Limerick... The Rodney Dangerfield of poetry.” Page through the warnings about bad language & you’ll arrive at the archive of daily limericks posted on this page from August 1995 through November 2001 -- lots & lots of limericks!

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
This is an ambitious project, to write a limerick for every word in the English language. Right now they are working on words beginning with aa- through bq- inclusive, and accepting submitted limericks from writers from more than a dozen countries.

The Pentatette Home Page
The Pentatette is the monthly newsletter of the Limerick Special Interest Group, whose Web site includes all kinds of limerick lore -- myths, history, taxonomy, oddities, trivia & of course lots of limericks.

Tony Davie Memorial Limerick Archive
Tony Davie was a computer scientist at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, who compiled the Net’s largest archive of limericks before he died of leukemia in 2003. Now his archive is resident at Aerchie’s Limericks site, indexed by the first letter of the name in the limerick’s first line.