by Johann Heermann. In the 18th century, amidst a resurgence of interest in Classical versification, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock wrote unrhymed Sapphics, regularly moving the position of the dactyl. Esteban Manuel de Villegas wrote Sapphics in Spanish in the 17th century. Miquel Costa i Llobera wrote Catalan Sapphics in the late 19th century, in his book of poems in the manner of Horace, called Horacianes. Notes References Main Verse specimens External links http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/meter/intro.pdf https://digitalsappho.org/fragments-2/ Stanzaic form Sappho