This is an analysis of To A Bride by Sappho.

Bride, around whom the rosy leaves are flying,
Sweet image of the Cyprian undying,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 10110101110 11000100010 01011110110 10011101010 11000101011 110001011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Epiphora

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