Homer
The Ancients
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The Hexameter of Homeric Poems
Homeric poems are written in hexameter which is the meter of epic. So you don't have rhyming essentially within ancient Greek poetry. It's all in the rhythm of the piece. And this is what lent itself so perfectly to song. I mean we think of reading the Iliad in the Odyssey today but we shouldn't be doing that. We should be thinking of these as songs instead.
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