Vierfache, Mehrfache, Vierzeiler, Mehrzeiler (Gedichte)

Two authors of defeated plays
said:"Think of us ill-fated,please.
No showman silver-plated fees
to us,since time long fleeted,pays.
We're just like dissipated fleas
whom fate, with blows repeated, flays,
Subsisting on deflated peas -
Help us in our depleted phase!