Editing Limerick (section)

== Humorous verse ==
A [[Limerick (poetry)|limerick]] is a type of humorous [[poetry|verse]] of five lines with an AABBA [[rhyme scheme]]: the poem's connection with the city is obscure, but the name is generally taken to be a reference to Limerick city or [[County Limerick]],<ref>Loomis 1963, pp. 153–157.</ref> sometimes, particularly to the [[Croom, County Limerick|Maigue Poets]], and may derive from an earlier form of [[nonsense verse]] parlour game that traditionally included a refrain that included "Will [or won't] you come (up) to Limerick?"<ref>The phrase "come to Limerick" is known in American slang since the Civil War, as documented in the ''Historical Dictionary of American Slang'' and posts on the American Dialect Society List. One possible derivation of the phrase, proposed by Stephen Goranson on ADS-list, is the Treaty of Limerick, implying "surrender," "settle," "get to the point".</ref> The earliest known use of the name "Limerick" for this type of poem is an 1880 reference, in a [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], newspaper, to a well-known tune.<ref>reported by Stephen Goranson on the ADS-list and in comments at the Oxford Etymologist blog</ref>