This is an analysis of Limerick:There Was An Old Person Of Ems by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Ems,
Who casually fell in the Thames;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 110001001 11111 11111 101011001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
