Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry the 16th century Jan Kochanowski created a three-line stanza, being just a shortened Sapphic stanza (11/11/5), and used it in his "Psalm 34". Much later Kochanowski's proposal was used by Cyprian Kamil Norwid in his famous poem "Coś ty Atenom zrobił, Sokratesie?" ("What Did You Do to Athens, Socrates?") Juliusz Słowacki, a romantic poet, frequently used a sexain rhyming "a b a b c c", and invented a stanza using this rhyme scheme but suggesting the Sapphic stanza in its metre: 11a/11b/11a/5b/11c/5c. It is also possible that Słowacki was inspired by the well-known Burns stanza which also consists of four
A Treatise on Poetry A Treatise on Poetry A Treatise on Poetry () is book-length poem in Polish by Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz on Polish literature, poetry and history from 1900 to 1949. Written in 1955 and 1956, it was first published in book form in 1957 and won that year's literary prize from "Kultura". The "Treatise" is considered one of Miłosz's greatest works. "A Treatise on Poetry" tells the history of Poland, particularly Polish poetry, during the first half of the 20th century. It is divided into four cantos, with a short introductory poem: The original Polish version was written between 1955