This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was An Old Person Of Anerley by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Anerley,
Whose conduct was strange and unmannerly;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 1111100100 1101111000 11101 001011 10100100100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
