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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote in [community profile] yuletide 2023-10-13 06:51 pm (UTC)

Are you counting the Lyke-Wake Dirge as poem or song for these purposes? AFAK, the original tune hasn't survived, so it's usually called a poem.

And are you counting the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and Eliot's The Waste Land as too long? What's your cutoff for poems? (FWIW, Waste Land is shorter than Goblin Market, and Hymn to Hermes only 13 lines longer.)

ETA: also on my list are Curragh of Kildare (Traditional Song), The Handsome Cabin Boy (Traditional Song), Tam Lin, Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (which is nom'd under Arthurian Mythology, but with the character Dame Ragnelle, who appears ONLY in that poem), and Wulf and Eadwacer. (I'm assuming Odyssey, Aenied, Ramayama, and Tristan and Iseut are all too long?)

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