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
Spenserian stanza Spenserian stanza The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem "The Faerie Queene" (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is ABABBCBCC. This example is the first stanza from Spenser's "Faerie Queene". The formatting, wherein all lines but the first and last are indented, is the same as in contemporary printed editions. <poem> Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song.