This is an analysis of There Was An Old Lady Whose Folly by Edward Lear.

There was an Old Lady whose folly
Induced her to sit in a holly:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabba
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 111110110 010010010 101101 01101 110011010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: limerick
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5