Analysis of Limerick:There was an Old Person of Berlin
Edward Lear 1812 (Holloway) – 1888 (Sanremo)
There was an Old Person of Berlin,
Whose form was uncommonly thin;
Till he once, by mistake,
Was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 111110101 1111001 111101 111001 111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 158 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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