Limmericks

There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He awoke in a fright
In the middle of the night
And found it was perfectly true.

There once was a girl from Great Britain
Who carelessly sat on her kitten
Imagine her surprise
and the look in her eyes
when on the behind she was bitten.

There was a young man from Shizuoka
Who was famous for being a joker
He won lots of mates
And went on thousands of dates
But he lost all his money at poker.

There was a young woman from Gunma
With a wonderfully good sense of humour.
She told great jokes
To hundreds of blokes
And even told one to a puma.

A nice young man from Miyazaki
Thought that bright colours looked tacky
He dressed in grey sack
Or completely in black
And once every month he wore khaki.

There was a girl from Yokohama
Who once went to school in pyjamas
Her friends said "no way!"
So on the next day
She dressed up as Barack Obama.

A young girl from Yokohama
Was talented on the piana
She played it with great style
Cause her fingers were agile
Until her brother hit them with a hammer.

Onomatopoeia and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Onomatopoeia is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as "click", "bunk", "clang", "buzz", "bang", or animal noises such as "oink", "moo", or "meow". The word is a synthesis of the Greek words όνομα (onoma, = "name") and ποιέω (poieō, = "I make" or "I create") thus it essentially means "name creation", although it makes more sense combining "name" and "I do", meaning it is named (and spelled) as it sounds (e.g. quack, bang, etc.)

Can you find any examples of onomatopoeia in this poem by Seamus Heaney?