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