Literary verse genre, which describes a poetical form that tells a story. The genre includes the verse forms: ballad, epic, lay, and saga.
Some of the earliest poems written in English, such as Beowulf (8th century), told stories. In the USA, the neo-narrative movement encouraged the rebirth of the narrative verse form from the late 1980s.
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