A Poem to Practice On
Kylee-Anne Hingston
This quick little poem from Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense (1846) is here to give you a chance to practice prosody and to practice annotating. The poem is in the public domain, and Lear’s collection is available in full on Wikisource.
There was an Old Man with a Beard
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared! —
Two Owls and a Hen,
four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.”