medieval poetry and of oral poetry generally. The main exponent and developer of their approaches was John Miles Foley (1947-2012).

Homeric verse

In Homeric verse, a phrase like rhododaktylos eos ("rosy fingered dawn") or oinopa ponton ("winedark sea") occupies a certain metrical pattern that fits, in modular fashion, into the six-foot Greek hexameter, which aids the aoidos or bard in extemporaneous composition. (The

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