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,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabba
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 111110010 111111010 101011 11001 110010110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: limerick
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5