| Traditional Oral Epic |
| Preface |
 | One Traditional Oral Poetics |
| Two Comparability of the Documents |
 | Three Comparative Prosody |
| • | Prologus |
| • | Method |
| • | The Indo-European Question |
| • | Prosody and Prosodies |
| • | Prosody and Formulaic Structure: Their Interrelationship |
| The Homeric Hexameter |
| The Junacki Deseterac (Heroic Decasyllable) |
| • | Outer Metric |
| Inner Metric |
| • | Caesura |
| • | Colon 2 and The Shape of The verse |
| • | Colon 1 |
| • | Summary: The Deseterac |
| The Old English Alliterative Line |
| • | Coda |
| Four Traditional Phraseology in the Odyssey |
| Five Traditional Phraseology in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| Six Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
| Seven Thematic Structure in the Odyssey |
| Eight Thematic Structure in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| Nine Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
| Ten Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| Eleven Conclusion |
| Appendix |
| References |
| Index |