the __________ is considered the longest poem ever written.
The MahÄbhÄrata is the longest known epic poem and has been described as the longest poem ever written. Its longest version consists of over 100,000 Åloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the MahÄbhÄrata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the RÄmÄyaá¹a.