Dear all:
As you may know, the Poetry & Prose Group will be hosting Coffee Hour after Church on March 17th – St. Patrick’s Day!
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we thought it would be a nice idea to do possibly a brief show and tell on the Patron Saints of the UK, and also have some of the children – even the adults! – engage in some good fun by reading out a few limericks. I know my kids love the project!
Here’s an example of the form that I am sure you will remember!
Hickory, dickory, dock,
A mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
The mouse fell down,
Hickory, dickory, dock
The first, second, and last lines all rhyme, while the third and fourth lines rhyme themselves. A-A-B-B-A A
Here’s another example:
There was an old man with a beard,
Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!
Two owls and a hen,
Four larks and a wren
Have all built their nests in my beard!
These two poems do not have the same number of syllables, but they are both limericks because of their rhyme pattern. Typically, limericks have three stressed syllables altogether in the first, second, and last lines, and two stressed syllables in the third and fourth.
Soooooo….If you are interested, please try your hand at writing a limerick or two, work with your kids to do so, and we can invite folks to come up and read for the group. Just for fun! Please try and let me know in advance at scott@howtoinusa.com if you plan to contribute.
I look forward to seeing you then on the 17th after Church.
All the best,
Scott