| The stanza is written like the formulaic examples of wit and allusion in old-fashioned riddle books. |
| The sapphic stanza, which Sappho uses and may have invented, has a strong caesura, as do her other lines. |
| Form poems are also noted for their traditional use of rhyme, metre and stanza. |
| I thought it was curious, then, when I saw the phrase in Sappho, in the first stanza of the poem To Atthis. |
| So an entire stanza or page might at times intervene between the M and the U of Mud. |
| I don't know a more seductive syncopated rhythm than that of the Sapphic stanza with its three long lines and one short one. |
