This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was An Old Man With A Beard by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who sat on a horse when he reared;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 11101111 111101 101101 101011001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
Anaphora
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