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en-wikipedia-org-3033		Alcaic stanza - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	840	132	71	Alcaic stanza Wikipedia In Sappho's and Alcaeus' poetry[edit] The Alcaic stanza as used by Sappho and Alcaeus has the scheme ( where "–" is a longum, "u" a breve, and "×" an anceps): The metrical pattern of an Alcaic stanza would look like this: Horace frequently used the Alcaic stanza in his Odes, as can be seen from this example : The Alcaic stanza was adapted to use in English and French during the Renaissance. It was an historically important form in Hungarian poetry.[3] In Polish poetry (in contrast to the Sapphic stanza which was extremely popular since the 16th century) Alcaics were used very rarely. Even in translation Horace's Alcaic stanzas were usually turned into different forms. An example (perhaps the only) of an Alcaic stanza in Polish original literature is Stanisław Trembecki's Ode to Adam Naruszewicz:[4] All articles with dead external links Articles with permanently dead external links	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3033.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3033.txt