This is an analysis of the poem Sappho's Song that begins with:
O cruel Love, on thee I lay
My curse, which shall strike blind the day ; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeebbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11111101 10110101 1110101 11010111 11011111 11011101 01010111 11011101 111111 01111001 11111111 11111111 11110111 111110111 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and, be, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
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