This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Person Of Dutton by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Dutton,
Whose head was as small as a button,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 111110010 111111010 101011 11001 110010110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
