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Limerick: There Was A Young Person Of Smyrna,: Poem by Edward Lear

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There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
Whose Grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the cat,
And said, 'Granny, burn that!
You incongruous Old Woman of Smyrna!'

Analysis of this poem
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