This is an analysis of The Caffer by Thomas Pringle.
Lo! where he crouches by the cleugh's dark side,
Eyeing the farmer's lowing herds afar;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcXaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010111 1001010101 0101010101 1101111111 1100010101 1101010101 0101110011 01001101011 1001010001 0101110101 0101110111 1011011110 0101111101 1001101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14