This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Person Of Philæ, by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Person of Philæ,
Whose conduct was scroobious and wily;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 110110110 11101 101011 101101001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
