Analysis of Limerick: There Was an Old Man with a Beard
Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
Scheme | AABBA |
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Poetic Form | Limerick |
Metre | 11111101 11111111 11001 11001 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 157 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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