Note 651 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)

Smythe, Greek Melic Poets, pp. 160, 510 f.—Bücher, p. 38, notes that this song, like many a lost refrain of the same kind, disregards the rules of classical metre, and follows the movement of the millstone.—Pennant (Second Tour in Scotland), Pinkerton, III. 314, compares the singing at the mill of the island women with Aristophanes’ Clouds, Act V. scene 11.