limerick

form of poetry

Class type of: humorous poetry Q204698

Facts

5 properties

Instance of: poetry genre
Subclass of: humorous poetry
Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[4]
Named after: Limerick^[3]
Subject lexeme: L37097

🏷️ Also known as

en limerick en Limerick ar قصيدة اللمريكة cs Limerik el Λίμερικ es Limericks fa لیمریک (شعر) fi limerikki he חמשיר ja リマリック ja リメリック ko 리머릭 pl Limeryk pt Limerique ro Limericks ru лимерик ru лимерики ru Лимерики ru лимерик (поэзия) tr hicviye

🔖 Identifiers · 22

Library of Congress Authorities ID: sh85077014
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300417752
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/7530
BBC Things ID: 964504ff-e518-4a0a-a0b3-f03015d7b672
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12649416z
Cultureel Woordenboek ID: literatuur-internationaal/limerick
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: art/limerick-poetic-form
FAST ID: 998850
Freebase ID: /m/0d29k
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 2144824
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID: 36562
J9U entity ID: 987007529220505171

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JSTOR topic ID (archived): limericks
Krugosvet article (archived): literatura/limerik
Lex ID: limerick
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID: gf2014026412
Museum-digital tag ID: 40288
Subreddit: limericks
TV Tropes ID: Main/Limerick
Work available at URL: humoropedia.com
YSO ID: 17572
Yale LUX ID: concept/65a0e6cf-8de0-4cea-8938-c0b358cf1530

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Summary

limerick is a poetry genre^[1]. limerick is a type of humorous poetry^[2].

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Class ancestry

[1] ↑ limerick is an instance of poetry genre (Q110220157) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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@misc{4ortxyz_limerick-q204698_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{limerick}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/limerick-q204698}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}}

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24w ago · WDEditor777 · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Work available at URL → https://humoropedia.com/absurdly-funny-limericks/

"Created claim: Work available at URL: https://humoropedia.com/absurdly-funny-limericks/"
24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Named after → Limerick

Subject lexeme → L37097

Described by source → Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

Subclass of → humorous poetry

+ 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 17572, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"

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