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That depends on whether you treat "limericks" as a trochee (long-short, i.e. "lim-ricks") or a dactyl (long-short-short, i.e. "lim-er-icks").
Egerlach, they once called this bard
Who'd school any with whom he did spar
Whether trochee or dactyl
word choice was impec'ble
master of prosody, unflappable.