This is an analysis of the poem Sappho To Her Girlfriends that begins with:
Fragments 34, 77, 76, 61, 71, 48, 86, 83, 47, 129, and 32 combined.
This is my song of maidens dear to me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddddbebefbfggXebbeaaXhhhiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,34,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111111111101 0011010101 1000111101 1111011111 1101110101 1101011101 1010001111 1010011111 10001111111 1101001101 1111011101 1000010001 1110011101 1001010101 1101011001 100100101 1111110001 0111010011 1001010001 1111000111 0101101100 10111110111 1011000101 1111110001 11011111001 1001111111 0111011100 0100010100 0011110111 11001001111 1101001111 1101110111 1011011101 1111110101 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 752
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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