This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Coblenz by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Coblenz,
The length of whose legs was immense;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111010 01011101 11011 01001 101011010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
