This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Who Said, 'How by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man who said, 'How
Shall I flee from that horrible cow?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111111 111011001 101101 101001 111001011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
