A Sapphic stanza is a poetic form that consists of three lines of fourteen syllables followed by a fourth line of five syllables. The first three lines traditionally have a specific metrical pattern, often characterized by a combination of dactyls (a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables) and trochees (a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable).

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