This is an analysis of Limerick: There Was Old Man In A Pew by Edward Lear.
There was Old Man in a pew,
Whose waistcoat was spotted with blue;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 1111001 11011001 1110010 010010 11011001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5