This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Lady Of Winchelsea by Edward Lear.
There was an old Lady of Winchelsea,
Who said, 'If you needle or pin shall see…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 1111100100 1111101111 101011 101001 10101100100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
