Line-by-Line Limericks 'n Odes

[Declan A Walsh]

There once was a * limerick poet from Limerick







* Limericks are 5 lines (1st, 3rd and 5th lines to rhyme with each other, and 2nd and 4th with each other) - just saying! 

Is a rhyming pattern of lines 1,2 and 5 also OK with lines 3 and 4 separately rhyming- so 'cat', 'bat', 'caught', 'fought' and 'that' would be valid?

Going with Declan's proposal:

There once was a * limerick poet from Limerick
Who lived- all alone- on a farm.

My bad - I should have said that in a classic limerick 1st, 2nd and 5th rhyme with each other, and 3rd and 4th rhyme with each other. I need more sleep!