Alcaic stanza four lines; the first two lines are divided into two parts by a caesura after the fifth syllable. The metrical pattern of an Alcaic stanza would look like this: Horace frequently used the Alcaic stanza in his Odes, as can be seen from this example : An English translation, which suggests the metre, is : A famous example of English Alcaics is Tennyson's "Milton": <poem style="margin-left:2em"> O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, </poem> The Alcaic stanza was adapted to use in English and French during the Renaissance. It was very frequently used in
Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry Sapphic stanza in some poems. Olbrycht Karmanowski, a minor poet, employed it in the poem "O śmierci" ("On Death"). Lenart Gnoiński used Sapphic stanzas in the tenth poem of a sequence named "Łzy smutne" ("Sorrowful Tears"). Daniel Naborowski, a Calvinist poet, employed the Sapphic stanza in "Lament I" from "Laments on Death of Duke Radziwiłł, Castellan of Vilnius". The poem consists of eleven strophes. Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, whose poetry (influenced strongly by Giambattista Marino) is most typical for Baroque, used Sappho's stanza in "Do lutnie" ("To a Lute") from "Lutnia" ("The Lute") and in "Wiejski żywot" ("Life in a Village"