This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of The Nile, by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of the Nile,
Who sharpened his nails with a file,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 11001001 111101 111011 0100110010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
