This is an analysis of There Was An Old Man Of Calcutta by Edward Lear.
There was an old man of Calcutta,
Who perpetually ate bread & butter;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 111110110 1010001110 1011010111110 1110110110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
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