• Limericks can be tricky to form.
• Their rhyme scheme has a well-defined norm.
  • They all go in this way:
  • it’s A A B B A
• And the last line should hit like a storm.

• And yet writers must be really slick
• to tell folks that its a limerick.
  • For line three and then four
  • you must indent some more
• than one, two, and five; that does the trick.

• My problem with this one Hallmark book
• into which I did just take a look,
  • oh, each page, it is fine
  • but has only one line.
• So the rhyme scheme? It can be mistook.

• They call it a board book (it is not)
• But its meant to fill the board book’s spot,
  • to be read right out aloud
  • to an observing crowd
• or a child or maybe just a tot.

• The reader on his first reading through
• will be unaware of what to do
  • Because page number five
  • Will not properly jive
• with page six, where the rhyme is not true.

• It’s just on the last page in the back
• that they say how you’re meant to attack
  • the rhythmic delivery.
  • Do it improperly,
• And the book will seem horribly slack.

• You must take the time to rehearse
• to avoid that unfortunate curse.
  • Do not choose to recite
  • before getting it right,
• Or else you’ll surely be bad to verse.

You’re a Good Kid, Charlie Brown, written by Bill Gray, illustrated by Rich LaPierre

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