Limerick

noun

1. port city in southwestern Ireland

   noun.location

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

   noun.communication

   Source: WordNet 3.0

3. A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as --</p> <p><blockquote>There was a young lady, Amanda,<BR> Whose <i>Ballades Lyriques</i> were quite <i>fin de</i><BR> <i>Si&egrave;cle</i>, I deem<BR> But her <i>Journal Intime</i><BR> Was what sent her papa to Uganda.<BR></blockquote> <BR>

   noun

   Source: webster1913