Question

Which statement best describes the Sapphic stanza?

Answer 1

The correct answer is A Sapphic stanza consists of four lines where the first three have 11 syllables and the fourth has five. Although its name comes from the ancient poet Sappho, she didn't really write using it and used a different version of it that had 3 lines of the aeolic verse. In her poetry, there was word-end before the final Adonean/