Verse in which a speaker or a story carries the poem, including the dramatic monologue spoken by a single character who is not the poet, persona poetry written from the perspective of a created speaker, and the epyllion, a short narrative poem in dactylic hexameters. A form belongs here when its cited article describes it as a poem spoken by a created character or as a narrative poem of modest length. It excludes full epics, which belong to the epic and heroic narrative tradition.
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Wikipedia: Epistolary poem
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a poem written in the form of an epistle or letter
Conversation poem - Wikipedia
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A conversation poem is a genre in English poetry growing out of the close co-operation between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth in the late 1790s.
Dramatic Monologue (Wikipedia)
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Dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character.
Persona poetry - Wikipedia
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Persona poetry is poetry that is written from the perspective of a 'persona' that a poet creates, who is the speaker of the poem.
Epyllion - Wikipedia
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An epyllion is, in its most basic definition, a narrative poem written in dactylic hexameters that is comparatively short.
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