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Sapphic


SAPPHIC, adjective saf'ic. Pertaining to Sappho, a Grecian poetess; as sapphic odes; sapphic verse. The sapphic verse consists of eleven syllables in five feet, of which the first, fourth and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl, in the first three lines of each stanza, with a fourth consisting only of a dactyl and a spondee.