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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]]
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
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}}
* ''[[The
* ''[[The
* ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', also ascribed to Homer.
* The rest of the [[The Trojan Cycle
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Ramayana]]''
* ''[[
* Statius's ''Thebaid''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''The Poem of the Cid'' on the exile and redemption of El Cid Compeador, (very) loosely based on his real exploits.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''Os Lusíadas'' by Luis Vaz de Camões
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The unfinished ''The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream'' by [[
* ''[[
* ''[[Lord
* ''[[The Kalevala]]'' (the Finnish national epic)
* ''The Song of Hiawatha'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
* ''Evangeline'', also by Longfellow.
* ''[[
* ''Eugene Onegin'', a Russian novel by [[
* ''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]].
* ''[[
* The Homeric Hymns
* ''[[
* ''The Ballad of Mulan'', Chinese ballad.
* The ''Poetic Edda'' consists of these.
* ''Piers Plowman'' by William Langland
* The anonymous ''[[Sir Gawain and
* ''[[
* ''Venus and Adonis'' and ''The Rape Of Lucrece'' by [[
* ''[[
* All the other [[Child Ballad
* [[
* ''Kubla Khan'', also by Coleridge.
* ''[[
* ''La Belle Dame sans Merci'' by [[
* ''The Highwayman'' by Alfred Noyes
* ''Tam o' Shanter'', by [[
* ''Terje Vigen'' by [[
* ''The Charge Of The Light Brigade'' by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
* ''[[The Raven (
* 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 [[
* ''[[Casey
* ''The Shooting of Dan McGrew'' and ''The Cremation of Sam McGee'', both by Robert W. Service.
* ''The Truant'' by E.J. Pratt.
* [[
* ''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]]
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