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{{trope}}
{{quote|<poem>''The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,''<br />
''The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,''<br />
''The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,''<br />
''And the highwayman came riding--''<br />
''Riding--riding--''<br />
''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—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.
 
Narrative poems started to decline in popularity with the advent of writing, as it was not quite so necessary to learn stories off by heart when they are written down. However, they persisted in popularity for several hundred years, as the majority of people were illiterate for much of human history.
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* A narrative poem that meets the criteria of an [[The Epic|epic]] is an epic poem.
* A shorter narrative poem that uses stanzas is a ballad (especially if it is set to music)
* A [[Novel]] written in verse is a [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|verse novel]].
 
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|Examples of narrative poems:}}
{{examples}}
==== Epic poems (including [[Parody|genre parodies]]) ====
* ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh (Literature)|The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' is probably the oldest surviving example.
* ''[[The IliadEpic (Literature)|Theof IliadGilgamesh]]'' byis [[Homerprobably (Creator)|Homer]]the oldest surviving example.
* ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The OdysseyIliad]]'', also ascribed toby [[Homer]].
* ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', also ascribed to Homer.
* The rest of the [[The Trojan Cycle (Literature)|Trojan Cycle]], authors uncertain.
* ''[[Batrachomyomachia (Literature)|Batrachomyomachia]]'', a mock-heroic epic poem, i.e. parody of the traditional epic.
* ''[[Mahabharata (Literature)|Mahabharata]]''
* ''[[Ramayana (Literature)|RamayanaMahabharata]]''
* ''[[Ramayana]]''
* ''[[The Aeneid (Literature)|The Aeneid]]'' by [[Virgil (Creator)|Virgil]]
* Statius's ''Thebaid''
* ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'', Anglo-Saxon heroic epic.
* ''[[The Shahnameh (Literature)|The Shahnameh]]'' by Ferdowsi
* ''[[The Song of Roland (Literature)|The Song of Roland]]'', an account of how the title character was betrayed at Roncesvalles.
* ''[[Nibelungenlied (Literature)|Nibelungenlied]]''
* ''The Poem of the Cid'' on the exile and redemption of El Cid Compeador, (very) loosely based on his real exploits.
* ''[[The Divine Comedy (Literature)|The Divine Comedy]]'' by Dante Alighieri.
* ''[[Orlando Furioso (Literature)|Orlando Furioso]]'' by Ariosto.
* ''Os Lusíadas'' by Luis Vaz de Camões
* ''[[The Faerie Queene (Literature)|The Faerie Queene]]'' by Edmund Spenser.
* ''[[Paradise Lost (Literature)|Paradise Lost]]'' by [[John Milton (Creator)|John Milton]].
* ''[[Literature/The Rape Ofof The Lock|The Rape Of Thethe Lock]]'' by Alexander Pope, another mock-epic.
* The unfinished ''The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream'' by [[John Keats (Creator)|John Keats]].
* ''[[Ludas Matyi (Literature)|Ludas Matyi]]'' is a Hungarian example, adapted to a successful animated film.
* ''[[Lord ByronsByron's Don Juan|Don Juan]]'' by [[Lord Byron (Creator)|Lord Byron]], mock-epic.
* ''[[The Kalevala]]'' (the Finnish national epic)
* ''The Song of Hiawatha'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
* ''Evangeline'', also by Longfellow.
* ''[[Pharsalia (Literature)|Pharsalia]]'' by Lucan.
 
==== Verse novel ====
* ''Eugene Onegin'', a Russian novel by [[Alexander Pushkin (Creator)|Alexander Pushkin]]
* ''Pan Tadeusz'' by Adam Mickiewicz
* ''The Golden Gate'', a modern novel written in Pushkin sonnets by Vikram Seth.
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* ''[[Impulse]]'' and ''[[Identical]]'', [[Young Adult]] verse novels by [[Ellen Hopkins]].
 
==== Other (includes ballads): ====
* ''[[Enuma Elish (Literature)|Enuma Elish]]'' -- Babylonian—Babylonian creation myth.
* The Homeric Hymns
* ''[[The Metamorphoses (Literature)|The Metamorphoses]]'' by [[Ovid (Creator)|Ovid]]
* ''The Ballad of Mulan'', Chinese ballad.
* The ''Poetic Edda'' consists of these.
* ''Piers Plowman'' by William Langland
* The anonymous ''[[Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Literature)|Sir Gawain and Thethe Green Knight]]''
* ''[[The Canterbury Tales (Literature)|The Canterbury Tales]]'' and ''The Book of the Duchess'' by [[Geoffrey Chaucer (Creator)|Geoffrey Chaucer]].
* ''Venus and Adonis'' and ''The Rape Of Lucrece'' by [[William Shakespeare (Creator)|William Shakespeare]]
* ''[[Tam Lin (Literature)|Tam Lin]]'', a [[Child Ballad]]
* All the other [[Child Ballad|Child Ballads]]s
* [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Creator)|Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Literature)|The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''
* ''Kubla Khan'', also by Coleridge.
* ''[[ErlkoenigThe Erl (Literature)King|Erlkoenig]]'' by [[Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Creator)|Johann Wolfgang Vonvon Goethe]].
* ''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' by [[John Keats (Creator)|John Keats]]
* ''The Highwayman'' by Alfred Noyes
* ''Tam o' Shanter'', by [[Robert Burns (Creator)|Robert Burns]].
* ''Terje Vigen'' by [[Henrik Ibsen (Creator)|Henrik Ibsen]].
* ''The Charge Of The Light Brigade'' by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
* ''[[The Raven (Literaturepoem)|The Raven]]'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe (Creator)|Edgar Allan Poe]].
* Robert Browning's ''Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came'', basis of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series.
* ''The Hunting of the Snark'' by [[Lewis Carroll (Creator)|Lewis Carroll]].
* ''[[Casey At the Bat (Literature)|Casey Atat the Bat]]'' by Ernest Thayer.
* ''The Shooting of Dan McGrew'' and ''The Cremation of Sam McGee'', both by Robert W. Service.
* ''The Truant'' by E.J. Pratt.
* [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] wrote quite a few: two long epic poems of tales from the ''[[The Silmarillion (Literature)|Quenta Silmarillion]]'' (''The Lay of Leithian'' and ''The Lay of the Children of Húrin'', respectively), as well as countless shorter ones appearing in his works (e.g. ''Earendil'' from ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'').
* ''Crossing America'' by Leo Connellan.
* ''The Adventures And Brave Deeds Of The Ships Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis and Triumphant Firing of the Port of Chagres'' by [[Richard Adams]]
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Poetry Tropes]]
[[Category:Formats]]
[[Category:Older Than Dirt]]
[[Category:Narrative Poem]]
[[Category:Epic Tropes]]
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