I was trying to remember exactly what form a limerick should follow, and one of the most famous ones I remember seems “slightly irregular.”
(Well at least as well as I can recall it, but perhaps my meter is not correct.) My apologies if this is already been posted here six times because I did not read the whole thread.
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
His daughter, named Nan,
ran away with a man.
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
He followed them both to Pawtucket.
Nan, and the man with the bucket.
Paw told the young man
To just keep the girl, Nan.
But as for the bucket, Pawtucket.
Anyhow, all the rest of the limericks I can think of off the top of my head are not suitable for a family site.