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 idylls


 * The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 * Crossing America by Leo Connellan
 * The Divine Comedy by Dante
 * The Elder Edda (anonymous)


 * Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
 * Piers Plowman by William Langland
 * The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare
 * The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * Tam Lin (anonymous)
 * Tam o' Shanter, by Robert Burns
 * The Truant by E.J. Pratt