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
by Edward Lear
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.”
A black and white cartoon drawing of the image described in the poem below.
Fig. 1. Edward Lear’s illustration for his poem “Old Man with a Beard.” Image from p. 1 of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense, available on Wikisource. 

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