Of the kinds of words we have enumerated it may be observed that compounds are most in place in the dithyramb, strange words in heroic, and metaphors in iambic poetry.

上面所列举的词的种类中，我们可以看到复合词最常出现酒神颂里，外来词最常出现英诗里，隐喻最常出现抑扬诗里。