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…

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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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