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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As for that limerick of hers, I have heard her tell worse.
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Based on one of Aesop's fables, it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Five-line limericks, however, add humour, but be sure they are in good taste.
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He welcomed changes in the life of the University and of the Department in adroitly phrased verse and limericks.
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Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.
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On several subsequent Manhattan visits I met Tom again and between visits we exchanged letters and limericks.
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This is the last call for limericks with an electoral theme.
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We're after a standard limerick on any electoral theme, remember, but probably featuring a North-East candidate.