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