It Was You, Atthis, Who Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EEC FGH GFI EJE KLL MNF O P| It was you Atthis who said | A |
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| Sappho if you will not get | B |
| up and let us look at you | C |
| I shall never love you again | D |
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| Get up unleash your suppleness | E |
| lift off your Chian nightdress | E |
| and like a lily leaning into | C |
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| a spring bathe in the water | F |
| Cleis is bringing your best | G |
| pruple frock and the yellow | H |
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| tunic down from the clothes chest | G |
| you will have a cloak thrown over | F |
| you and flowers crowning your hair | I |
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| Praxinoa my child will you please | E |
| roast nuts for our breakfast One | J |
| of the gods is being good to us | E |
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| today we are going at last | K |
| into Mitylene our favorite | L |
| city with Sappho loveliest | L |
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| of its women she will walk | M |
| among us like a mother with | N |
| all her daughters around her | F |
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| when she comes home from exile | O |
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| But you forget everything | P |
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