This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was An Old Sailor Of Compton by Edward Lear.

There was an Old Sailor of Compton,
Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabba
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 111110010 110010111 01111 101001 0110010010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: limerick
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5