First we need to agree that, although it's not the only form of poetry, a Limerick has five lines, and they read

"da BOM ba da BOM ba da A
ba da BOM ba da BOM ba da A
ba da BOM ba da B
ba da BOM ba da B
ba da BOM ba da BOM ba da A"

The first syllable of each line may be present or not, as long as the BOM is in the right place.

Like it or not that we have to follow Roolz, that's what a Limerick is.



Back to the Limerick Workshop:

Quote:
A parachute fell from the sky.
Underneath it a sixty-ton sty.
Baked Beans they had eaten was producing gas
Which exploded like gunfire from the swines ass
Proving indeed that pigs can fly.

OK, that works for rhyme scheme, -a, -a, -b, -b, -a. But it needs to conform to the rhythm scheme, and we're not there yet.

S'pose we change line 2 like this:

A parachute fell from the sky.
Below was a sixty-pig sty.

Baked Beans they had eaten was producing gas
Which exploded like gunfire from the swines ass
Proving indeed that pigs can fly.

Next challenge: shorten lines 3 and 4 to six syllables.

And looking ahead - we're going to want to introduce some sparkle somewhere. Otherwise it's just another juvenile Beavis-and-Butthead bathroom joke, exactly as humorous as "Ooh, ooh, he said fart! He said fart!")