This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man Whose Despair by Edward Lear.
There was an old man whose despair
Induced him to purchase a hare:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111101 01101001 10111 111001 11001001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5