Limericks

I found the poem "To Miss Vera Beringer" (By Lewis Carroll):

There was a young lady of station
‘I love man’ was her sole exclamation;
But when men cried: ‘You flatter,’
She replied, ‘Oh! no matter
Isle of Man is the true explanation.'

What are limericks?

In order for a poem to be classified as a limerick, it is "a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear."

A limerick always has 5 lines to it, no more and no less and they are usually pretty short sentences. Lines 1,2 and 5 must rhyme with each other.