Sapphic stanza Słowacki stanza: 11a/11b/11a/5b/11c/11c. In 1653, Paul Gerhardt used the Sapphic strophe format in the text of his sacred morning song "Lobet den Herren alle, die ihn ehren". Sapphic stanza was often used in poetry of German Humanism and Baroque. It is also used in hymns such as "Herzliebster Jesu" by Johann Heermann. Sapphic stanza The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form spanning four lines (originally three: in the poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus, there is no line-end before the final Adonean). The form is two hendecasyllabic verses, and a third verse beginning the same way and
Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry their lyrical pieces. Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (known as Acernus) decided to employ the stanza in a longer epic poem. His "Flis, to Jest Spuszczanie Statków Wisłą i inszymi rzekami" ("The lightening or expediting barges on the Vistula river and other rivers") is because of its stanzaic form an exceptional work, perhaps not only in Polish literature. The whole poem is 471 stanzas long and probably no other work can be compared to it. Tobiasz Wiszniowski, who wrote his own sequence of "Laments", employed Sapphic stanza in "Tren XVII" (Lament XVII"). At the beginning of the Baroque, Kasper Miaskowski employed the