National Limerick Day
We all need a bit of silliness in our lives from time to time and National Limerick Day provides the perfect annual opportunity!
Celebrated each year on 12 May, the familiar five line verse is renowned for its humorous, sometimes bawdy themes. Instantly recognisable from the rhythm of the verse they are cleverly constructed to put a smile on our face.
Limericks will normally have the first, second and final lines ending with the same rhyme, while the third and fourth shorter lines have their own rhyme as illustrated below:
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!’
Now you know what it is, we’d like to see your Limerick efforts to feature in the next issue of Connect*. Send your entry to connectnews@moray.gov.uk by 31 March to get involved.
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