This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Man With A Gong by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man with a gong,
Who bumped at it all day long;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 1110111 111111 1010110 111111001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
