This is an analysis of A Scotchman Whose Name Was Isbister by Ellis Parker Butler.
A Scotchman whose name was Isbister
Had a maiden giraffe he called 'sister'…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 010111100 1010011110 111101 0111000 11101011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: limerick
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
