Analysis of Limerick: There was an Old Person of Bangor
Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)
There was an Old Person of Bangor,
Whose face was distorted with anger!
He tore off his boots,
And subsisted on roots,
That irascible Person of Bangor.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 111110110 111010110 11111 0111 1010010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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