This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Person Of Leeds by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Leeds,
Whose head was infested with beads;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 11101001 11101 111101 101011001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
