This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Tobago by Edward Lear.
There was an old man of Tobago,
Who lived on rice, gruel and sago…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 111110010 111110110 11001 001010 0011010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
