A limerick always has 5 lines and the first line has to rhyme with the 2nd and 5th line and the 3rd and 4th line have to rhyme.

Success criteria:

• 1,2,5 have to rhyme
• The lines line 3/4 have to rhyme
• poetic devices
• lines not always full sentences

Limericks have a nice rhythm, you can read the out loud and hear a beat forming

so to make one you would have to have the lines 1,2 and 5 rhyming and having some

main poetic devices and not all lines have to be sentences.