This is an analysis of The Death Of Adonis by Sappho.
Fragments 108, 110, 115, 117, 116, 111, 114, and 113 combined.
This is the lamentation-song…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcXdbdXXbbcceeaaXX
- Stanza lengths: 1,18,
- Metre: 1011111111101 00010001 1010110101 1110100101 111011101 111111101 110111101 01011110010 110010010100 1100100101 1111001101 1101111001 1110100111 11011111 11100101101 1111101001 1110100101 11001110001 1101111011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 19
Anaphora
she, they, no