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Is this sufficiently logical to commit to memory? Any suggested edits?

If $x$ is within $\delta$ of $c$,
so $f$ is in $\varepsilon$ of $T;$
work $f$ minus $T$ to $x$ minus $c$;
choose $\delta$ as $\varepsilon$, worked as need be;
then the limit of $f$ as $x$ goes to $c$
is proven to be equal to $T$.

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    Change delta to d. If that is epsilon, change it to eta. This makes the meter and length of the first 2 lines equal to those of a standard limerick. I could say more. Looks promising. – 2017-01-02
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    just for completeness: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1692395/mathematical-limerick – 2018-11-24

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A limerick has five lines. Your poem has six lines. Yet your title implies your poem is a limerick. Illogical.

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    Ok, so a Quasi-Limerick it is. Questions of poetic form aside, is it logically equivalent to the form of an Epsilon-Delta proof? First-year calculus student here. – 2017-01-01
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    haha ok, I didn't take this for a serious question (and didn't mean that as a serious criticism). Yeah, the content looks perfectly logical to me, poetic license granted. – 2017-01-01