Analysis of Limerick: There Was a Young Lady Named Laura
William Cosmo Monkhouse 1840 (London) – 1901
There was a young lady named Laura,
Who went to the wilds of Angora,
She came back on a goat
With a beautiful coat,
And notes of the fauna and flora.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 110110110 111011010 111101 101001 011010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 153 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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