This is an analysis of There Was An Old Man In A Tree by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a bee.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 11111001 111001101 11110010 1011001 0010010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
