This is an analysis of To Any Army Wife by Sappho.
To any army wife, in Sardis:
Some say a cavalry corps,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X Xab XXb ccc aaX aXX XXb XcX Xc
- Stanza lengths: 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,
- Metre: 010101010 1101001 1100101 0011011 0111010 1111111 1110110 0010010 1101111 01000111 1110111 11110010 1000010 1101101 1110101 11000111 10101011 0110111 1110011 1111110 0101110 1011100 10 110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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