Brothers Poem homecoming stories told in the "Odyssey". The lost initial stanza or stanzas of the poem have also been the subject of scholarly attention, with various reconstructions being put forward. In 2014, five fragments of papyrus, containing the remains of nine separate poems by Sappho – three previously unknown – were published by Dirk Obbink, Simon Burris, and Jeffrey Fish. The most impressive of these was the newly discovered Brothers Poem, which survives on "P. Sapph. Obbink", a piece of a critical edition of Book I of Sappho's poetry. The Brothers Poem is followed on the fragment by nine lines of
Rondel (poem) Rondel (poem) A rondel is a verse form originating in French lyrical poetry of the 14th century. It was later used in the verse of other languages as well, such as English and Romanian. It is a variation of the rondeau consisting of two quatrains followed by a quintet (13 lines total) or a sestet (14 lines total). It is not to be confused with the roundel, a similar verse form with repeating refrain. The first two lines of the first stanza are refrains, repeating as the last two lines of the second stanza and the third stanza. (Alternately, only