Fourteener (poetry) with Fourteeners, to form a poem of 12 and 14 syllable lines. It was often used in the Elizabethan era. The term was coined by George Gascoigne, because poulters, or poulterers (sellers of poultry), would sometimes give 12 to the dozen, and other times 14 (see also Baker's dozen). When the poulter's measure couplet is divided at its caesurae, it becomes a short measure stanza, a quatrain of 3, 3, 4, and 3 feet. Examples of this form are Nicholas Grimald's "A Truelove"; Lord Brooke's "Epitaph on Sir Phillip Sydney"; Nicholas Breton's "Phyllis" in the Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century
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"