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''The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.''|'''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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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:}}
* ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' is probably the oldest surviving example.
* ''[[The Iliad]]'' by [[Homer]].
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* ''[[Pharsalia]]'' by Lucan.
* ''Eugene Onegin'', a Russian novel by [[Alexander Pushkin]]
* ''Pan Tadeusz'' by Adam Mickiewicz
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* ''[[Impulse]]'' and ''[[Identical]]'', [[Young Adult]] verse novels by [[Ellen Hopkins]].
* ''[[Enuma Elish]]''
* The Homeric Hymns
* ''[[The Metamorphoses]]'' by [[Ovid]]
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* ''Venus and Adonis'' and ''The Rape Of Lucrece'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
* ''[[Tam Lin]]'', a [[Child Ballad]]
* All the other [[Child Ballad
* [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''
* ''Kubla Khan'', also by Coleridge.
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