Narrative poetry

Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story. The poems may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be simple or complex. It is usually nondramatic, with objective verse and regular rhyme scheme and meter. Narrative poems include epics, ballads, and idyllsThe Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord TennysonCrossing America by Leo ConnellanThe Divine Comedy by DanteThe Elder Edda (anonymous)Pan Tadeusz by Adam MickiewiczPiers Plowman by William LanglandThe Rape of Lucrece by William ShakespeareThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTam Lin (anonymous)Tam o' Shanter, by Robert BurnsThe Truant by E.J. PrattThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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