Analysis of Limerick: There Once Was an Old Man of Lyme
William Cosmo Monkhouse 1840 (London) – 1901
There once was an old man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time,
When asked, 'Why a third?'
He replied, 'One's absurd!
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 11111111 11011101 11101 101101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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