Dostoevsky's canon includes novels, novellas, novelettes, short stories, essays, pamphlets, limericks, epigrams and poems. Cady loved to write humorous poems, limericks, and parodies of songs. Legman spent several decades compiling specimens of bawdy humor including limericks. The story contains several (spoof) poems and limericks. Lear wrote 212 limericks, mostly considered nonsense literature. Today, limericks are invariably typeset as five lines. Among them are limericks, many comics and thrillers. The city has a tradition of political graffiti which includes limericks and caricatures. He enjoyed Yiddish and "off-color" humor (especially limericks). This song is unique because every verse is made up of five-line limericks. The following is an example of one of Edward Lear's limericks. His other interests included dirty limericks and fortune cookies. Perrine was also the author of books of limericks. The craze for gloves called "limericks" took hold. He even created a slim volume of Sherlockian limericks.