Analysis of Limerick: There was an Old Man with a Nose
Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)
There was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, 'If you choose to suppose,
That my nose is too long,
You are certainly wrong!'
That remarkable Man with a nose.
Scheme | AABBA |
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Poetic Form | Limerick |
Metre | 11111101 11111101 111111 111001 101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 159 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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