Analysis of Limerick: There Was a Young Lady of Wilts
William Cosmo Monkhouse 1840 (London) – 1901
There was a young lady of Wilts,
Who walked up to Scotland on stilts;
When they said it was shocking
To show so much stocking
She answered: 'Then what about kilts?'
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 11011011 11111011 1111110 111110 11011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 168 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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