Analysis of Limerick: There Once Was a Girl of Lahore
William Cosmo Monkhouse 1840 (London) – 1901
There once was a girl of Lahore,
The same shape behind as before;
As no one knew where
To offer a chair,
She had to sit down on the floor.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 11101101 01101101 11111 11001 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 143 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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