Analysis of There was a young soldier called Edsar
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
There was a young soldier called Edsar
When wanted was always in bed sir:
One morning at one
They fired a gun
And Edsar, in bed sir, was dead sir.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 11011011 11011011 11011 11001 01011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 142 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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