This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of The Isles by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of the Isles,
Whose face was pervaded with smiles;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 11101001 11111 111010 110001001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
