This is an analysis of the poem It Was You, Atthis, Who Said that begins with:
It was you, Atthis, who said
"Sappho, if you will not get ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abc XXb daX adX XcX aaX XXd X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 10001011 1111111 11101101 101011100 111110 110101000 100110010 101011 111010 10010011 10101110 11101011 100011011 1111101 001010001 100111011 001001100 10010100 10010101 01110100 1010010 1011101000 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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