Note the alliteration: "viam" and "videtas"; "tetis" and "tokam"; "alies" and "esmen"; "vepses" and "vepeten". The possibility of this and the other inscriptions being stanzas of verse (strophes) was considered from the time of their discovery. Watkins called them "the South Picene strophe," which he defines as three lines of seven syllables each, comparing them to a strophe of the Rig Veda containing three lines of eight syllables each. Moreover, each line ends "in a trisyllable." The lines of this inscription are: