This is an analysis of the poem Limerick:There Was A Young Lady Of Welling that begins with:
There was a Young Lady of Welling,
Whose praise all the world was a-telling;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: limerick
- Metre: 110110010 111011010 11101 111001 101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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