This is an analysis of To Anactoria, Who Has Forsaken A Once-Loved Girlfriend Of Sappho by Sappho.
Rushing war-hosts, horsemen or foot or galleys —
These doth one call, those doth another, fairest…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacacdbeXededceceecec
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 10111011110 11111101010 11111111010 10110 10111011010 10101011010 10111001010 11010 11101001010 10101011110 101001101010 101100 10001110010 11101001110 11111001010 11010 01101011110 11101001010 10111011010 10010 10101011010 10101111110 00101101010 10010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
