This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Of Vesuvius, by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,
Who studied the works of Vitruvius;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 1111100100 1100100100 101101 01011 1101100100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
