This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was An Old Person Of Berlin by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Berlin,
Whose form was uncommonly thin;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 111110001 11111001 111101 111001 111111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
