An elegiac couplet is a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter. Elegiac meter was considered alternating lines of dactylic hexameter and pentameter. Ancient Greek and Latin poems were written in dactylic hexameter. Roman poets use two dactylic forms, the hexameter and the elegiac couplet. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter. It contains eight legends written in dactylic hexameter. Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in the verse form dactylic hexameter. He adopted Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics. The poem consists of six untitled books, in dactylic hexameter. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. The most important Classical metre is the dactylic hexameter, the metre of Homer and Virgil. The "Odyssey" is written in dactylic hexameter. Such epitaphs were frequently in metrical form, usually either hexameter or elegiacs. He uses hexameter that mixes iambs and anapests.