Двадцать сонетов к Марии Стюарт / создал в том веке Иосиф*. / Здесь пятьдесят**- имяреку на фарт, / и адресата нет вовсе. ---------------------------------------- *Иосиф Бродский. Двадцать сонетов к Марии Стюарт, 1974 год. **Предположительно будет, а может, - 60...
Limerick is a comical five-line poem in which lines A, B and E rhyme. Each of these three lines has three stresses. Lines C an D also rhyme and also have two stresses. Or simply speaking, limerick is a lot of nonsense that rhymes and is written according to the scheme.