Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry after the fourth, not the fifth syllable. His Sapphic stanzas influenced the Czech poet Jaroslav Vrchlický. Also Kazimierz Wroczyński tried to imitate Greek rhythm in his poem "Strofa Safony" ("Sappho's strophe"). His stanza is composed of three lines of SsSsSsSSsSs and one of SssSs. The SsSsSsSSsSs scheme is just a trochaic hexameter (SsSsSsSsSsSs) with the eighth syllable omitted. For comparison to Horace's standard: In the 20th century classic strophes went out of use together with regular verse. Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz used Sapphic stanza in the poem "Marzec w Paryżu" ("March in Paris"). It is composed of four stanzas and three are
Of Modern Poetry is ongoing. These non-sentences also stress that the mind must act, not passively wait for inspiration or intuition. And the mind must seek to find "what will suffice." What that says of modern poetry will be addressed metaphorically in the poem, the organizing metaphor being that of a new stage on which the modern poet will perform. The lines of the poem, non-traditional "free verse," do not rhyme and are not metrical. They range from ten syllables to fourteen. One striking thing about the sounds of the poem is that three of the lines have weak endings; that is, the