 The importance of the Sapphic stanza for Polish literature lies not only in its frequent use, but also in the fact that it formed the basis of many new strophes, built up of hendecasyllables (11-syllable lines) and pentasyllables (5-syllable lines).The stanza comes from classical Greece, but it was the Romans, especially Horace, who provided the chief models for Renaissance poets.Horace's Sapphic stanza comprised three "lesser sapphics" and an "adonic"