This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Person Of Cadiz by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Cadiz,
Who was always polite to all ladies;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 111110001 1111010110 1010010 1100010 111110001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
