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
Burn Center (poem) those feelings to characterize a narrator or protagonist, not herself. She pushes those feelings onto other character. “Burn Center” is unconventional is the fact that it’s 29 lines of poetry. Olds lacks punctuation so the poem is made up of long sentences. The lines are also uneven and have various lengths. The poem is also just one midlength stanza. Olds also displays enjambment by cutting her lines off in the middle of the sentence, making the reader proceed to the next line to get the rest of the idea or the thought. Burn Center (poem) "Burn Center" is a poem