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(40,416 posts)Five lines, not four. First, second and fifth end in rhymes. Third and fourth end in rhymes. Bonus for an internal rhyme within the fifth line. It also helps if it has some rhythm. Lines 1,2, and 5 should have same number of syllables. Likewise lines 3 and 4, only shorter.
Still, it's a good Tweet. Just not close to being a limerick.
Here's a proper limerick from the immortal Christopher Hitchens, an outright limerick master:
A vice both obscene and unsavory
Holds the bishop of barking and slavery.
With lascivious howls
He deflowers young owls
That he lures to an underground aviary.
Of course, it's a bit naughty. Some others by Hitch are very, very naughty.
He told this one on CSPAN one day and got a rather huge laugh:
They say of the the bishop of Birmingham
That he screws little boys while confirming' em.
They kneel on the hassock,
He lifts up his cassock,
And pumps his episcopal sperm in 'em.
3catwoman3
(24,091 posts)...a limerick. Not even close.
meow2u3
(24,775 posts)It's a couplet and this couplet describes the "Trump touch" to a T.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Who let Dirty Donny* piss on the fly.
As he bailed the sinking S.S. republican Casino,
he held a skullbutt full of treasonous cheeto
And said he would write his tell-all in the by and by.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)jayschool2013
(2,316 posts)There was an orange con man named Trump
Who once called the White House "a dump"
Only he knows the reason
He committed such treason
But soon Trump will be out on his rump
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,226 posts)There once was a lawyer named Cobb
Whose client was a deplorable slob
He said the man's collusion
Was only an illusion
But he still found himself out of a job
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Ty Cobb knew the art of the steal
A baseball legend, for real
The lawyer so named
Worked for a lame-brain
Who can't fathom the art of the deal.