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…

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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