<P> The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical . But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean And the clean ones so seldom are comical . </P> <P> The form appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century . It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century, although he did not use the term . Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene, and cites similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw, describing the clean limerick as a "periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity". From a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its function . Lear is unusual in his creative use of the form, satirising without overt violation . </P> <P> The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables . The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta - ta - TUM), but catalexis (missing a weak syllable at the beginning of a line) and extra-syllable rhyme (which adds an extra unstressed syllable) can make limericks appear amphibrachic (ta - TUM - ta). </P> <P> The first line traditionally introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines . In early limericks, the last line was often essentially a repeat of the first line, although this is no longer customary . </P>

How many syllables are in each line of a limerick poem
find me the text answering this question