Limerick writing Mark 3 (colour, animal,number).

There once was a hippo with jaw ache.

Ten miles from the dentist in Warwick

The route map he red

Took a black cab and said

Take the next turning just past Swan Lake.

(Does a bird count as an animal?)

(of course a bird is an animal, so are insects, fish, and dinosaurs - plenty of strange useful words in dinosaur varieties)

I saw them go in two by two

The red baboon has nicked my shoe

The Ark sailed on the ocean blue

(Mine's too late and yours is funnier NanKate!)

Noah lined up the apes

'Mid black looks and gapes

The small brown Ellie is turning blue.

The cat's just walked on the keyboard

He's learning the Blues on the harpsichord.

The parrot's joined in

These aren't limericks. Nothing makes sense.
Please call them nonsense rhymes next time!

They make qu(wh)ite a din

As the camel said to the djin

Two leopards were chasing their spots

(What is everybody on???)

(Time to repeat the template? Again?

Di pom di di pom di di pom di
Di pom di di pom di di pom di

Di pom di di pom
Di pom di di pom

Di pom di di pom di di pom di

The black syllables are emphasised, the not-black ones are not.)

(Oh, and the first, second and last lines rhyme together, the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.)

As you were.

Two leopards were looking for black spots

(Better?!)