This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was An Old Person Of Cheadle by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Cheadle,
Who was put in the stocks by the beadle…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 111110010 1110011010 11011 11111 110010010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
Repeated words/phrases
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