This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of The Dee by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of the Dee,
Who was sadly annoyed by a flea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 111001101 1111011 111010 11111001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
