Just a teaser.. I'm re-writing the old epic Space Wolf poem, this time on the 12th Great Company Wolf Lord, Bran Redmow.
http://www.ehow.com/how_3334_write-epic-poem.html . For those of you interested, this is the basics of writing an epic poem in generic form. It goes a lot deeper than that when you really research it, but that gives you the cookie cutter format of what is to vaguely come.