This is an analysis of Song Of The Rose by Sappho.

F Zeus chose us a King of the flowers in his mirth,
He would call to the rose, and would royally crown it;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebXeb
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 1111010010001 1110011110010 101101001001 0010011110010 1011010010010 001001111011 0010010111010 111011001101 101101101101 001101001101 101101011101 101001001011 111001101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

of, rose, that, ho

Anaphora

is