He also freed the elegy from the classical elegiac meter. The first fourteen poems alternate between elegiac couplets and hendecasyllables. Roman poets use two dactylic forms, the hexameter and the elegiac couplet. The poem runs to 6,574 lines of elegiac couplets. Amores is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. These two latter genres were elegiac poetry and iambic poetry. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Catullus wrote in many different meters including hendecasyllabic and elegiac couplets (common in love poetry). Second, it can refer more specifically to poetry composed in the form of elegiac couplets. The "Heroides" ("Heroines") or "Epistulae Heroidum" are a collection of 21 poems in elegiac couplets. It was the standard accompaniment of the passionate elegiac poetry. The first examples of elegiac poetry in writing come from classical Greece. Medieval Latin had a developed comedic genre known as elegiac comedy. In their lyric and elegiac poetry there is much to admire.