Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry for Renaissance poets. Horace's Sapphic stanza comprised three "lesser sapphics" and an "adonic": In Polish there was no quantitative verse, as phonemic quantity itself was extinct. Nor was there accentual-syllabic versification, save some attempts by Jan Kochanowski. But Polish syllabic lines were available. A syllabic hendecasyllable 11(5+6) took the place of the quantitative lesser sapphic; likewise with the adonic. The hendecasyllable (with caesura after the fifth syllable) is very common in Polish poetry, and the pentasyllable is so typical for Polish verse that Karol Wiktor Zawodziński gave it the name of "polonik". Pentasyllables occur in Polish poetry either in a
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (film) Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (film) Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town is a 1967 short film made by George Lucas based on E. E. Cummings' poem of the same name. It was one of two films Lucas made after returning to USC's film school as a graduate in 1967 (the other was "The Emperor"). The film represented a first for the USC film school by being shot in color and widescreen. The film was shown out of competition in the "Special Screening" section at the "Short Shorts Film Festival EXPO 2005". The film focuses on the