Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry Sapphic ones. Only the last one is made up of four hendecasyllabic lines. All strophes rhyme ABAB. The Sapphic stanza is still used in translations form Sappho's or Horace's poems. The scheme of Sapphic stanza is so recognizable, that it can be preserved even in free verse. Lucylla Pszczołowska points out that Czesław Miłosz sometimes composed four-line stanzas with last line of five syllables and other lines of different length. The Sapphic stanza's scheme was so attractive to Polish poets that they started to modify it, and many stanzas based on it can be found in Polish literature. Already in
Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry their lyrical pieces. Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (known as Acernus) decided to employ the stanza in a longer epic poem. His "Flis, to Jest Spuszczanie Statków Wisłą i inszymi rzekami" ("The lightening or expediting barges on the Vistula river and other rivers") is because of its stanzaic form an exceptional work, perhaps not only in Polish literature. The whole poem is 471 stanzas long and probably no other work can be compared to it. Tobiasz Wiszniowski, who wrote his own sequence of "Laments", employed Sapphic stanza in "Tren XVII" (Lament XVII"). At the beginning of the Baroque, Kasper Miaskowski employed the