This is an analysis of The Moon by Sappho.

THE stars about the lovely moon
Fade back and vanish very soon,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 01010101 11110101 11110101 10011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

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