The Structure of Heeceid

Before institutions standardized religious doctrines, the generation of religious narrative and rhetoric was an improvised, imaginative activity. Part of the reason for this was the distinct demands of poetic meter. When you're writing in iambic tetrameter and using predictable end rhymes, it's far easier to lock clusters of lines together in your memory. The very strictness of poetry does not stifle nor hinder creativity, but instead inspires it.