limerick

• aabba uyak düzenine sahip olan, beş mısralık esprili şiir.
  
  örnek, edward lear'ın birdy lady adlı şiiri:
  
  there was a young lady whose bonnet
  came untied when birds sat on it;
  but she said, “i don’t care!
  all the birds in the air
  are welcome to sit on my bonnet!”