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All lines are not the same length in a limerick poem. To be a limerick, the first, second, and fifth lines have three metrical feet and lines three and four have two metrical feet. Also, the endings of lines one, two, and five rhyme, and the endings of lines three and four rhyme.
Provided that the metre is the same, the lines are referred to as a 'couplet'.
rhyming couplet
You can measure or indicate the rhyme scheme of a poem using the lines of the poems which are represented by numbers such as AABB or ABABA.
A limerick .