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
Epic poetry rhyme royal, though in the 16th century the Spenserian stanza and blank verse were also introduced. The French alexandrine is currently the heroic line in French literature, though in earlier periods the decasyllable took precedence. In Polish literature, couplets of Polish alexandrines (syllabic lines of 7+6 syllables) prevail. In Russian, iambic tetrameter verse is the most popular. In Serbian poetry, the decasyllable is the only form employed. Epic poetry An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women