The first line of a limerick has a flexible number of syllables. Sometimes eight, sometimes nine (“There once was a man from Nantucket…”). It still remains that any limerick can be put the to tune of that song because there is enough space for each syllable.
The first line of a limerick has a flexible number of syllables. Sometimes eight, sometimes nine (“There once was a man from Nantucket…”). It still remains that any limerick can be put the to tune of that song because there is enough space for each syllable.