I went on to catalog the special features of Homer’s poetry, starting with the long, six-beat, oom-pah-pah meter, called dactylic hexameter, to which every one of the Odyssey’s twelve thousand one hundred and ten lines dances: BUM-buh-buh BUM-buh-buh BUM; buh-buh BUM-buh-buh BUM-buh buh BUM BUM
