This is an analysis of The Anactoria Poem by Sappho.
Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers,
others call a fleet the most beautiful of…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabb cdea fgfe egcX Xdfe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111010011110 10101011000 10111011101 10111 10100101011 10111101110 10101001000 10110 11101001011 10101101110 10101001011 10010 10101111010 10111011010 0110111011 1100000 11111101010 101001101111 1010100011001 10010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
say, her, and