This is an analysis of the poem Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Columbia that begins with:
There was an Old Man of Columbia,
Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: limerick
- Metre: 1111100100 1110111111 111011 001101 10101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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