Name that describes the stanza formed by three hendecasyllable verses and a final adonic of five syllables: -Single stanza -Anacreontic stanza -Free stanza -Sapphic stanza

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Barracuda · Answer 1 · 2022-08-31T15:52:51+0000

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Your answer is a Sapphic stanza

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The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form spanning four lines (although originally three in the poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus, as there is no line before the final Adonean).

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