In Competition No. 3240, you were invited to tell the life story of a well-known figure in three limericks.

In the excellent How to Be Well-Versed in Poetry, E.O. Parrott summed up the charms of the form neatly:

With a shape of its own it’s imbued –
That’s the limerick, witty or lewd;
Two lines, then you oughter
Have two more, much shorter
Then one longer that’s funny or rude.