A wise young lady from Gloucester,
Kept all of her friends on a roster;
She’d have them to dine,
But just one at a time,
Concerned at how much it would cost her.
Il limerick è un breve componimento in poesia, tipico della lingua inglese, dalle ferree regole (nonostante le infinite eccezioni), di contenuto umoristico o anche apertamente nonsense, che ha generalmente il proposito di far ridere o quantomeno sorridere.
Un limerick è sempre composto di cinque versi, di cui i primi due e l’ultimo, rimati tra loro, contengono tre piedi e dunque tre accenti (stress); il terzo e il quarto, a loro volta rimati tra loro, ne contengono solo due. Le rime seguono dunque lo schema: A A B B A.
Limericks © Tony Lawson
Images © Silvia Perricone
Your comments are always very welcome.
Ingliando 
Wonderful!
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Thank you, Luisa. 🙂
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You’re welcome 😉😚
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I think if she’d have to dine more then once per day she’ll become a wise fat lady
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Ahah! No doubt! 😂
Volevi dire “dovesse” in the first part?
If so, then you should have used a second conditional:
“I think if she HAD to dine more than once a day, she WOULD become a wise fat lady.”
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yes correct.
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😀👍
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I think that a limerick can be commented on only by another limerick. Not being talented for that, I just say that the young lady would have been wiser by having all her friends together at the same dine. It would have been less expensive and more enjoyable!! AHAH!
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You may well be right about having all her friends at the same time, Giuseppe! I think she just wanted the expenditure to be well distributed over a long period of time!
As regards writing a limerick, I supplied all the useful rhymes in my “Limerick Challenge” post at the beginning of the year. Why don’t you have a look? You never know, you may find the inspiration you need!
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