This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Leghorn by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Leghorn,
The smallest that ever was born;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111010 01011011 110111 111010 1010111010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
