This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was An Old Man Of Aôsta by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Aôsta,
Who possessed a large cow, but he lost her;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111010 1010111110 111111 111101 1010011010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5