This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was An Old Man Of Whitehaven by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
Who danced a quadrille with a raven;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 1111101000 110100010 111101 001001 11111101000
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
