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Sapphic Verse Defined

After the odes of the Greek lyric poet, Sappho, a poem with lines of eleven syllables in five feet, of which the first, fourth and fifth feet are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl. The Sapphic strophe consists of three Sapphic lines followed by an Adonic.
Sidelight: For an example of Sapphic verse in English poetry, see Isaac Watts' "The Day of Judgment."
(See also Horatian Ode, Ode, Pindaric Verse)

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