Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense

This lesson plan explores the characteristics of the nonsense poem as developed by British poet Edward Lear and focuses on Lear’s well-known poem “The Owl and the Pussy Cat.” Students learn to recognize poetic devices such as rhyme, syllabification, and meter, and figures of speech such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification, by analyzing nonsense poems and writing one of their own.

Fort Worth Corps of Engineers 🇺🇸 on X: It is #LimerickDay. Limericks were popularized by Edward Lear's book “Book of Nonsense” in 1846. A limerick is a short, humorous, nonsense poem. Within

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