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
Verse (poetry) is too pedestrian or too incompetent to be classed as poetry. Blank verse is poetry written in regular, metrical, but unrhymed, lines, almost always composed of iambic pentameters. <poem> </poem> Free verse is usually defined as having no fixed meter and no end rhyme. Although free verse may include end rhyme, it commonly does not. <poem> </poem> Verse (poetry) In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition. However, verse has come to represent any division or grouping of words in a poetic composition, with groupings traditionally having been referred to as stanzas.