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;…

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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