This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was A Young Lady Of Lucca by Edward Lear.
There was a Young Lady of Lucca,
Whose lovers completely forsook her;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 110110010 110010010 11101 11101 11000010010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
