This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Person Of Chili by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Chili,
Whose conduct was painful and silly,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 111110010 110110110 11101 101011 1010110010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
