This is an analysis of the poem Limerick: There Was A Young Lady Of Poole that begins with:

There was a Young Lady of Poole,
Whose soup was excessively cool;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: limerick
  • Metre: 11011001 11101001 111001 101011 101011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • idea of the verse;
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