This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Madras by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Madras,
Who rode on a cream-coloured ass;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111010 11101101 101001 101001 101111010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
