Sapphic stanza

A papyrus manuscript preserving Sappho's "Fragment 5", a poem written in Sapphic stanzas

The Sapphic stanza, named after the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, imitations of the form since the Middle Ages typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West".[1]


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