Limerick: There was an Old Man of Madras

Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)



There was an Old Man of Madras,
Who rode on a cream-coloured ass;
But the length of its ears,
So promoted his fears,
That it killed that Old Man of Madras.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 08, 2023

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Scheme ABCCA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 159
Words 33
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5

Edward Lear

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. more…

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