Hello everyone, welcome to StoryNory.

And this week we will dive into the fun and silly world of Limerick's.

I'm your host Lucy Limerick.

Well actually I'm Johnna, but Lucy Limerick is quite a fitting name for this episode.

Now what is the Limerick?

It's a funny little poem with five lines.

Three of them rhyme and there's also a little rhyming couplet.

It's simple. I'll give you an example and you'll soon grasp it.

Listen to this classic Limerick.

There was an old man with a beard who said,

it's just as I feared. Two owls and a hen, four locks and a ren.

Have all built their nests in my beard.

Did you hear how the lines flowed and rhymed?

That Limerick was by Edward Lear, a Victorian poet who wrote loads of Limericks

and published them in his book of nonsense.

He even drew funny cartoons to go with them.

It's amazing how much you can say in just five silly lines.

Let's take a magical ride through some famous stories transformed into Limericks.

All about, all about, first off, very day alking down.

Here's a story I'm sure you know all about.

It's about a girl with a glass slipper.

Their once was a maid named Cinderella,

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