List: Sapphic Form

Sapphic Form

The main building blocks of the sapphic are trochees and dactyls. The trochee is a metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one (DAH-di), while the dactyl contains a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones(DAH-di-di). The first three lines of the sapphic contain two trochees, a dactyl, and then two more trochees. The shorter fourth, and final, line of the stanza is called an "Adonic" and is composed of one dactyl followed by a trochee.
Source: “Sapphic” and “Loose Sapphic” forms Mairi bheag

• Little Sure Shot

  Sapphic Form

  21 lines, 20 comments, on Aug 5 10:46 AM 2007. In history, Sapphic Form
• My Purpose

  Sapphic form

  21 lines, 15 comments, on Aug 6 9:30 AM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts, Sapphic form
• journey through life

  Sapphic Form

  14 lines, 21 comments, on Aug 7 6:41 PM 2007. In Life, Dark, Sapphic Form
• Natural War

  Sapphic Form

  22 lines, 24 comments, on Aug 8 9:49 AM 2007. In Life, Nature, Thoughts, Sapphic Form
• Sapphire

  Sapphic Form
  

  16 lines, 27 comments, on Aug 8 6:35 PM 2007. In Nature, Thoughts, Sapphic Form
• Out of Reach

  Loose Sapphic form
  

  11 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 28 9:40 AM 2007. In Life, Sad
• Hazy Reality

  Sapphic form

  19 lines, 13 comments, on Apr 20 2:58 AM. In Dark, Sapphic form
• We Will Survive

  Sapphic ode

  24 lines, 20 comments, on Aug 10 9:32 AM. In Life, Pain
• swallowed

  Sapphic Form

  15 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 20 10:06 AM. In Thoughts, Personal, Spiritual, Life
• infected

  Sapphic Form

  19 lines, 14 comments, on Sep 23 7:35 AM. In Sad, Dark, Thoughts
• The Encounter

  Loose Sapphic Form

  24 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 3 4:19 PM. In Fantasy, Love

• right now

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