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…

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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