This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of The North by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of the North,
Who fell into a basin of broth;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 110001001 101001 111001 11111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
