Each one had to recite a piece of classical poetry and modern verse.

In modern editions of classical poetry some elements of this system are still used if they are important for rhyme or metrics.

In his poems, he used rhyme and alliteration similarly to the way they had come to be used in classical poetry.

This was in order to mirror long and short syllables used in classical poetry, which in contemporary poetry would be stress accents.

His poetry was first influenced by the classical poetry and later by the national epic poetry of the time.