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World-Class Poetry Terms

Poetic Terms That Start With The Letter N

Narrative - A poem that tells a story. More often than not, the narrative form is mutually exclusive of the lyric, but there have been forms that possessed the qualities of both poems and these are usually called lyric narratives.

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