Analysis of Book Of Nonsense Limerick 10.

Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)



There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, "Does it buzz?"
He replied, "Yes, it does!
"It's a regular brute of a Bee!"


Scheme AABBA
Poetic Form Limerick 
Metre 11111001 111001101 111111 101111 101001101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 152
Words 35
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Edward Lear

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. more…

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