This is an analysis of To Any Army Wife by Sappho.

To any army wife, in Sardis:
Some say a cavalry corps,…

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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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