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{{trope}}
{{quote|<poem>''The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,''
''The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,''
''The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,''
''And the highwayman came riding--''
''Riding--riding--''
''The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.''</poem>|'''Alfred Noyes,''' "The Highwayman"}}
Simply put, a narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. This [[Formats|format]] is [[Older Than Dirt]]—in fact, it may even predate prose. Such poems were popular in ye olden dayes, as the rhymes, rhythms, and alliteration helped the storyteller remember how the story went.
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Subgroups of ballads that have their own page on this wiki are the [[Murder Ballad]] and the [[Morality Ballad]]. For a related format, see [[Rock Opera]].
{{examples}}
== Epic poems (including [[Parody|genre parodies]]) ==
* ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' is probably the oldest surviving example.
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* ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'' by Edmund Spenser.
* ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' by [[John Milton]].
* ''[[
* The unfinished ''The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream'' by [[John Keats]].
* ''[[Ludas Matyi]]'' is a Hungarian example, adapted to a successful animated film.
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