In the second scheme the cæsura properly comes after the stressed fourth or the unstressed fifth syllable.
Sapphic verse.—The sapphic is a hendecasyllable which requires that certain accents be present and that certain syllables be short. The full requirements are:
(1) accents on the fourth, eighth and tenth syllables as in a heroic of the second scheme;
(2) an accent on the first syllable;
(3) that the second and third syllables be short;
(4) that the sixth, seventh and ninth syllables be short;
(5) that the first hemistich end in a word stressed on the penult;
(6) that there be no synalœpha at the cæsura; e.g., Villegas:
Dùlcĕ vĕcìno | dĕ lă vèrdĕ sèlva.
Requirements [1], [4] and [5] must be met; the others may occasionally be neglected, thus the accent of the first syllable is lacking in Villegas: