The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter.

The poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic dactylic hexameters.

The poem is written in tightly-structured blank verse and comprises verse-paragraphs rather than stanzas.

The poem comprises eight verses of ten lines, making it one of his longest poems.

The poem comprised four books of verse in dactylic hexameter, the heroic meter.

In its longest form the poem comprises upwords of 10,000 stanzas.

The poem comprises eighteen short poems which are grouped into two sections.

The poem and the translation comprise 434 pages.

The original poem comprised twelve cantos, of which only the first four survived (1848 lines).

The two poems together comprised 5000 lines.