This is an analysis of The Prinkin' Leddie by Elinor Morton Wylie.
The Hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin',
The Lowlan' lassies for prinkin' and pinnin';…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bbcc aXdX eeXX XXee ddXd aaXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101011110 01010110110 11111111110 0111110101 1111110010 11011110110 010011011010 1101010110 01101101110 1011110101 1011111010110 110110111110 1111110110 111011011010 1111011010 10101011110 101101101010 10111101010 10111110010 1101111010 10111101010 10111101110 110011110110 01111001110 01001110010 11101101010 0100100111 00100110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
an', o'
Anaphora
the, i've, when
