Limerick

There once was a boy named Dan, who wanted to fry in a pan. He tried and he tried, and eventually died, that weird little boy named Dan.

There once was a fly on the wall, I wonder, why didn’t it fall? Because its feet stuck? Or was it just luck? Or does gravity miss things so small?

Hickory Dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock; the clock struck one and down he run; hickory Dickory dock.

No woodsman would cut a wood, would he If woods would be woodless – nor should he. Yet no woodcutter would Cut a woody-wood wood If no woodsmen cut woody woods, would he?

There was an old man of Peru, Who dreamt he was eating his shoe. He woke in the night, With a terrible fright, And found it was perfectly true.

If you catch a chinchilla in Chile And cut off its beard, willy-nilly You can honestly say That you have just made A Chilean chinchilla's chin chilly

There was a young woman named Bright, Whose speed was much faster than light. She set out one day, In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.

There was a young schoolboy of Rye, Who was baked by mistake in a pie. To his mother’s disgust, He emerged through the crust, And exclaimed, with a yawn, Where am I?

A tutor who tooted the flute Tried to tutor two tooters to toot Said the two to the tutor “Is it tougher to toot or To tutor two tooters to toot?”