Let your creative juices flow! Have fun and write your own two poem: Write a limerick poem. The limerick is always light and humorous. Its usual form consists of ?ve predominantly anapestic lines rhyming aabba; lines 1, 2, and 5contain three feet, while lines 3 and 4 contain two. Limericks have delighted everyone from schoolchildren to sophisticated adults, and they range in subject matter from the simply innocent and silly to the satiric or obscene. The sexual humor helps to explain why so many limericks are written anonymously.