This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was A Young Lady Of Norway, by Edward Lear.
There was a Young Lady of Norway,
Who casually sat on a doorway;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 110110011 1100011011 101101 101101 0010110011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
