In 1773, a London magazine described sex between women as "Sapphic passion". The poem is typical of Sappho's work, with its subject and form both characteristically Sapphic. A simple form of Greek strophe is the Sapphic strophe. Sapphic stanza was often used in poetry of German Humanism and Baroque. "Saffic" is a portmanteau of Sapphic from the term Sapphic love and fiction. A panegyric to her survives, in five Sapphic stanzas attributed to Melinno. Poem 11 is one of the two poems that Catullus writes in the Sapphic meter. Both women went on to explore the themes of sapphic love in their works. Unlike the majority of Catullus' poems, the meter of this poem is the sapphic meter. The last line of a Sapphic stanza is an adonic. The Sapphic stanza has been very popular in Polish literature since the 16th century. A popular form of Polish literature that employs the hendacasyllable is the Sapphic stanza&colon; 11/11/11/5. The hymn is written in Sapphic and Adonic meter.