Sappho To Her Girlfriends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGHGHIGJKKG GGGGBBBLLLMMNN| Fragments and combined | A |
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| This is my song of maidens dear to me | B |
| Eranna a slight girl I counted thee | B |
| When first I looked upon thy form and face | C |
| Slim as a reed and all devoid of grace | C |
| But stately stature grace and beauty came | D |
| Unto thee with the years O dost not shame | D |
| For this Eranna that thy pride hath grown | E |
| Therewith Alas for thee I have not known | E |
| One beauty ever of more scornful mien | F |
| As though thou wert of all earth's daughters queen | F |
| Mnasidica is comelier perchance | G |
| Than my Gyrinna ah but sweetly rings | H |
| Gyrinna's matchless voice In rapture trance | G |
| I listen listen while Gyrinna sings | H |
| Hero of Gyara is fleet of foot | I |
| As fawns and as light footed in the dance | G |
| The dance taught by the measures of my lute | J |
| Ever impassioned Gorgo is it strange | K |
| That I grow weary of the change on change | K |
| Of thine adored ones of thy rhapsodies | G |
| O'er each new girlfriend while the old love dies | G |
| Joy to thee daughter of a princely race | G |
| For thy last dear one Lie in her embrace | G |
| Till shines a new star on thy raptured eyes | G |
| Fonder of maids thou art I trow than she | B |
| The ghost who nightly steal young girls to be | B |
| In Hades of her woeful company | B |
| This is my fair girl garden sweet they grow | L |
| Rose violet asphodel and lily's snow | L |
| And which the sweetest is I do not know | L |
| For rosy arms and starry eyes are there | M |
| Honey sweet voices and cheeks passing fair | M |
| And these shall men I ween remember long | N |
| For these shall bloom for ever in my song | N |
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