The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle...

poet of the 7th century BC who wrote about her attraction to women Sapphic stanza, a four line poetic form Sapphism, an inclusive umbrella term for attraction...

The Sapphic stanza is the only stanzaic form adapted from Greek and Latin poetry to be used widely in Polish literature. It was introduced during the...

Sapphic stanza can be distinguished from the Alcaic and Asclepiad by the cretic rhythm (– ᴗ –) of its first three syllables. Although called "Sapphic"...

lines of a Sapphic stanza, though it was also sometimes used in stichic verse, for example by Seneca and Boethius. Sappho wrote many of the stanzas subsequently...

Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry. The Alcaic stanza consists...

concerning Veranius and Fabullus (9, 12, 13, 28, 47). But poem 11, in Sapphic stanzas, mentioning the possible invasion of Britain of 55 BC, is relatively...

(the most basic form of Aeolic line), hendecasyllabic verse, Sapphic stanza, and Alcaic stanza (the latter two are respectively named for Sappho and Alcaeus)...

Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac...

nonetheless included in Campbell's and Neri's editions. For book 1, Sapphic stanzas; for book 2, glyconics with double dactylic expansion in distichs;...

again and again.") The Sapphic stanza was imitated in English by Algernon Charles Swinburne in a poem he simply called Sapphics: Saw the white implacable...

metres of Sappho's poetry as a part of Latin literature, adopting the Sapphic stanza, believed in antiquity to have been invented by Sappho, giving his lover...

Alcaic stanza—and other stanza lines as in Sappho frr. 96, 98, 99—as Aeolic in nature, and appreciate how the initial three syllables of the Sapphic hendecasyllable...

(1965). (= Nisbet & Hubbard's 2nd archilochian) The first archilochian stanza consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic hemiepes: – u u...

foot consisting of a dactyl followed by a trochee. The last line of a Sapphic stanza is an adonic. The pattern (where "-" stands for a long and "u" for a...

discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The Ode to Aphrodite comprises seven Sapphic stanzas. It begins with an invocation of the goddess Aphrodite, which is followed...

lines repeated verbatim) Rubaiyat: AABA or AAAA Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry - various Scottish stanza: AAABAB, as used by Robert Burns in works such...

manuscript in France. The hymn uses classical metres: the Sapphic stanza consisting of three Sapphic hendecasyllables followed by an adonius (a type of dimeter)...

a number of ways. Glyconic Pherecratean Asclepiad Sapphic stanza, so called for Sappho Alcaic stanza, so called for Alcaeus Adonean or Adonic The following...

forms Stanzas Alcaic stanza Ballad stanza Biolet Burns stanza Chaubola Cinquain Couplet Ghazal Quatorzain Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic stanza Sestain...

or | – u u – – u u – – u u – |. A simple type of Aeolic metre is the Sapphic stanza favoured by the poet Sappho, which consists of three lines in the form...

Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac...

Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac...

and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus. The poem is 20 lines (five stanzas) long and written in Sapphic stanzas, a metre named after Sappho, which is composed of three...

"impending thunder". June Thunder is written in a loose form of the sapphic stanza, with three lines set in falling rhythm followed by a shorter fourth...

While behind a clamour of singing women      Severed the twilight. — "Sapphics", stanza 6 Swinburne devised the poetic form called the roundel, a variation...

Catullus twice used a meter that Sappho was known for, called the Sapphic stanza, in poems 11 and 51, perhaps prompting his successor Horace's interest...

Greek authors, especially Sappho and Callimachus; Catullus himself used Sapphic meter in two poems, Catullus 11 and 51, the second of which is almost a...

Greece, including Aeolian forms such as hendecasyllabic verse, the Sapphic stanza and Greater Asclepiad, as well as iambic verses such as the choliamb...

Hendecasyllable Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac...