Analysis of Limerick: There Once Was an Old Monk of Basing
William Cosmo Monkhouse 1840 (London) – 1901
There once was an old monk of Basing,
Whose salads were something amazing;
But he told his confessor
That Nebuchadnezzar
Had given him hints upon grazing.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 111111110 110010010 11111 11 110110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 158 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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