Analysis of There Was an Old Man in a Tree
Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)
There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a bee.
When they said "Does it buzz?"
He replied "Yes, it does!
It's a regular brute of a bee!"
Scheme | AABBA |
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Poetic Form | Limerick |
Metre | 11111001 111001101 111111 101111 101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 157 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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