A Poem to Practice On

Edward Lear and 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.

“There was an Old Man with a Beard”

by Edward Lear

A black and white cartoon drawing of the image described in the poem below.
“Old Man with a Beard,” Illustrated by Edward Lear. Image from Wikisource.

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.”

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