This is an analysis of The Auld Fisher by George MacDonald.
There was an auld fisher, he sat by the wa',
An' luikit oot ower the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXBX cXcX A XXXX A XaXa XXBX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,1,4,1,4,4,
- Metre: 11111011101 11011001 01011011101 1011001 101011010 1010110 1011110111 11001011 1011011011 110111 1010101101 11100101 1010110101 110110101 11101010 1010110101 110111 1010110101 1111111110 101011101 110011010110 101010101 101011010 1010110 1011110111 11001011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
an', awa, to, i'm
Anaphora
an'
Epiphora
awa
