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The Old Kalevala consisted of 12,078 verses or thirty-two poems.

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On 31/10/2007, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Frenchman displays world's longest poem
>
> Posted Sat Aug 5, 2006 6:04am AEST
>
> A 30-year-old Frenchman has put on display what he says is the longest poem
> in world - nearly 7,600 verses written on a roll of fabric that stretches to
> almost one kilometre on a car-race track in south-east France.
>
> Patrick Huet, a public notary, spent a month-and-a-half composing *Pieces of
> Hope to the Echo of the World* and then a further month copying it onto the
> material, which was unrolled with the help of a tractor.
>
> The work is an acrostic, a poem in which the first letters of each verse
> spell out a message - in this case the text of the 30 articles of the 1948
> Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
>
> "It came from a deep pressure inside me, a burning desire to express myself
> on the terrible scourges that have afflicted humanity for so many
> generations that we lose count," Mr Huet said.
>
> The display was witnessed by a court official so the 7,547 verses and
> 994.1metres can be attested before the
> *Guinness Book of Records*.
>
> Mr Huet has already written two shorter poems of 66 and 72 metres.
>
> - *AFP*
>