And specifically concerning meter, this was Milman Parry's big discovery. https://archive.org/details/MilmanParryTheMakingOfHomericVerse1971 https://archive.or

And specifically concerning meter, this was Milman Parry's big discovery. https://archive.org/details/MilmanParryTheMakingOfHomericVerse1971 https://archive.org/details/MilmanParryTheMakingOfHomericVer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milman_Parry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milman_Parry