This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was A Young Girl Of Majorca by Edward Lear.
There was a Young Girl of Majorca,
Whose aunt was a very fast walker;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 110110010 111010110 1110010 11011 1010110010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
