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
Rhyme royal of Darkness") in rhyme royal. Rhyme royal Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCC. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (ABA BB CC) or a quatrain and a tercet (ABAB BCC). This allows for variety, especially when the form is used for longer narrative poems. Along with the couplet, it was the standard narrative metre in the late Middle Ages. Chaucer first used