This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of The Wrekin by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of the Wrekin
Whose shoes made a horrible creaking…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 111110010 111010010 1111110 111010 1011110010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
