Analysis of Limerick: There Was an Old Man on a Hill
Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)
There was an Old Man on a hill,
Who seldom, if ever, stood still;
He ran up and down,
In his Grandmother's gown,
Which adorned that Old Man on a hill.
Scheme | AABBA |
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Poetic Form | Limerick |
Metre | 11111101 11011011 11101 01101 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 154 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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