Limericks
There was a young man from St Ives,
Whose limericks stopped at line five.
Quoth he, "It is true,
"My style is not new.
"But 'tis the scheme in which I scribe."
There was a young man from Balmore,
Whose limericks stopped at line four.
But because his verse
Was ever so terse,
There was a young man from Swansea,
Whose limericks stopped at line three.
You'd never find out,
There was a young man from Peru,
Whose limericks stopped at line two.
There was a young man from Verdun.