The poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic dactylic hexameters. Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, describes the Pythia speaking in dactylic hexameters. After going to Leipzig in 1747, he recast the prose into dactylic hexameters. The riddles themselves, written in tercets of dactylic hexameters, are of elegant Latinity. Composed in dactylic hexameters, the "Satires" explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection. It consisted of four idylls, totaling 2,997 hexameters. The hexameters of the nine cantos are at times irregular. It consists of "The Prelude" written in quantitative hexameters, and sonnets. It was composed around 1200, and was all written in "leonine hexameters". These represent an oracle, or a combination of two oracles, of seventy hexameters in all. He produced a poem of 139 hexameters and prose commentary on the first 105 lines. Poets who have written quantitative hexameters in English include Robert Bridges. In this work he included his most famous productions, 101 riddles in Latin hexameters. The pedestal's east face bears an inscription in five Latin hexameters. They are written in hexameters, a few in pentameters.