This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Dundee by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Dundee,
Who frequented the top of a tree;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 110001001 101101 101001 101101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
