This is an analysis of the poem There Was A Young Lady Named Laura that begins with:
There was a young lady named Laura,
Who went to the wilds of Angora,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: limerick
- Metre: 110110110 110010010 111101 001001 110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- 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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