Dactylic rhythms in the first line, and picked up elsewhere, beat out a quietly emphatic tattoo.

Obviously we’re coming at it from a remove: the original meter is dactylic hexameter, and English translations tend to use iambic pentameter.

Fruition, despite its light, jaunty, dactylic rhythms, its inventive word play, its warm physicality and emotional knife-throwing, reveals a more complex dimension.