This is an analysis of There Was An Old Man On The Border by Edward Lear.
There was an old man on the Border,
Who lived in the utmost disorder;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 111111010 110011010 11001111001 111011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4