A papyrus manuscript preserving Sappho's "Fragment 5", a poem written in Sapphic stanzas
The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle Ages imitations of the form typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West".[1]
The Sapphicstanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle...
Sapphic may refer to: Sappho, Greek poet of the 7th century BC who wrote about her attraction to women Sapphicstanza, a four line poetic form Sapphism...
The Sapphicstanza is the only stanzaic form adapted from Greek and Latin poetry to be used widely in Polish literature. It was introduced during the...
lines of a Sapphicstanza, 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 Sapphicstanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry. The Alcaic stanza consists...
(the most basic form of Aeolic line), hendecasyllabic verse, Sapphicstanza, and Alcaic stanza (the latter two are respectively named for Sappho and Alcaeus)...
metres of Sappho's poetry as a part of Latin literature, adopting the Sapphicstanza, believed in antiquity to have been invented by Sappho, giving his lover...
nonetheless included in Campbell's and Neri's editions. For book 1, Sapphicstanzas; for book 2, glyconics with double dactylic expansion in distichs;...
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...
lines repeated verbatim) Rubaiyat: AABA or AAAA Sapphicstanza in Polish poetry - various Scottish stanza: AAABAB, as used by Robert Burns in works such...
discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The Ode to Aphrodite comprises seven Sapphicstanzas. It begins with an invocation of the goddess Aphrodite, which is followed...
manuscript in France. The hymn uses classical metres: the Sapphicstanza consisting of three Sapphic hendecasyllables followed by an adonius (a type of dimeter)...
foot consisting of a dactyl followed by a trochee. The last line of a Sapphicstanza is an adonic. The pattern (where "-" stands for a long and "u" for a...
a number of ways. Glyconic Pherecratean Asclepiad Sapphicstanza, so called for Sappho Alcaic stanza, so called for Alcaeus Adonean or Adonic The following...
or | – u u – – u u – – u u – |. A simple type of Aeolic metre is the Sapphicstanza favoured by the poet Sappho, which consists of three lines in the form...
and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus. The poem is 20 lines (five stanzas) long and written in Sapphicstanzas, a metre named after Sappho, which is composed of three...
"impending thunder". June Thunder is written in a loose form of the sapphicstanza, with three lines set in falling rhythm followed by a shorter fourth...
Greece, including Aeolian forms such as hendecasyllabic verse, the Sapphicstanza and Greater Asclepiad, as well as iambic verses such as the choliamb...
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...
Catullus twice used a meter that Sappho was known for, called the Sapphicstanza, in poems 11 and 51, perhaps prompting his successor Horace's interest...
While behind a clamour of singing women Severed the twilight. — "Sapphics", stanza 6 Swinburne devised the poetic form called the roundel, a variation...
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