This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Nepaul by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Nepaul,
From his horse had a terrible fall;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111010 001101001 111101 111011 11011010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
