is for Limerick
The limerick is often comical, nonsensical and/or lewd. It follows a five line rhyme scheme aabba,
often used in children’s poetry and in parody. Puns and wordplay are common, and coined words are used in some cases for comic effect. Mother Goose Rhymes and Edward Lear’s are very well known examples,
though Lear preferred the term nonsense verse to limerick.