Limerick:
A humourous verse of five lines, in which the first and second lines rhyme with the fifth, and the shorter third and fourth lines rhyme. Limericks were made famous by the writer Edward Lear, who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the 19th century. The name comes from a song about the town of Limerick in Ireland. Many limericks are nonsensical, but the space limericks here have been chosen to educate as well.
RELATIVITY . . . Anonymous
Who could travel much faster than light She went out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. SPACE WEATHER . . . ASA
Who flew into space after dark When a flare from the Sun That he could not outrun Put an end to the lark of young Mark. SETI . . . Unknown
With a lack of solutions perplexing But on the horizon They're hoping Verizon Can setup unlimited texting. |