wordVerseWordsMeasured poetic speech as a named kind. Not meter as the count alone, and not rhyme as sound-echo alone.Hellenic religionVerse appears in Hellenic religion.The Iliad is heroic narrative in measured verse. A named Hellenic verse speech-kind in that epic, not meter as the count alone and not rhyme.from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesIliad · HomerHomer, Iliad.