Reading Comprehension #14017

Read these limericks for enjoyment. Also notice the rhyme schemes. Sometimes poets alter the spelling or pronunciation of words to fit the rhyme scheme.

There once was a choleric colonel * A
Who used oaths both obscene and infolonel, * A
Til the Chaplain, aghast, B
Gave up protest at last B
And just wrote them down in his jolonel. * A


She frowned and called him Mr. A
Because he boldly Kr. A
And so in spite B
That very night B
This Mr. Kr. Sr. A

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