A limerick is a light humorous on nonsensical verse of five anapest lines, ending in a rhyme.
This year is the 125th death anniversary of Edward Lear, the creator and exponent of satirical and nonsense rhyme known as the limerick. Lear was an artist and a naturalist and with his 'Book of Nonsense' published in 1846, launched a literary diversion that continues to interest and engage good writers with wit and humor universally. However, no one seems to know as to why the limerick is so called. But it has been vaguely associated with the Irish county of Limerick for no rhyme or reason. Now there are limericks galore, penned over the years by acknowledged authors that circulate and humor and intrigue many enthusiasts. To cite a few:
There was a young fellow of Lyme
Who lived with three wives at a time
When they asked, why the third
He replied " One is absurd and bigamy, Sir, is a crime.
A silly young man named Hyde
In a funeral procession was spied
When asked "who is dead?"
He giggled and said
" I don't know; I just came for the ride."
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