National Limerick Day

February 3, 2025May 11, 2016 by Pattiann

National Limerick Day is observed on May 12, the birthday of English author and poet Edward Lear, who popularized limericks in his book “Book of Nonsense”, published in 1846. Lear’s book https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=982 is available as a free download from Project Gutenberg. A limerick is a 5-line poem with a rhyming pattern of AABBA, with the … Read more