Sapphic meter

GPTKB entity

Statements (20)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:category classical poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sapphic meter
gptkbp:language gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:length 5 syllables (adonic) for fourth line
11 syllables (hendecasyllabic) for first three lines
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Sappho
gptkbp:notableExample gptkb:Odes_by_Horace
gptkb:Poems_by_Sappho
gptkbp:originatedIn Ancient Greece
gptkbp:pattern – u – x – u u – u – – (for hendecasyllabic lines)
– u u – – (for adonic line)
gptkbp:structure three hendecasyllabic lines followed by one adonic line
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:Catullus
gptkb:Horace
gptkb:Sappho
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Catullus_51
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5