What kind of poem is The Inchcape Rock?

QuestionsWhat kind of poem is The Inchcape Rock?
Anonymous asked 7 years ago

What type /kind /sort of a poem is ‘The Inchcape rock’ by Robert Southey?

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Staff answered 7 years ago

It is a didactic poem. A didactic poem always delivers a moral teaching or lesson for the mankind. This poem also has one, though not directly but through a legendary tale.

By its form, it is a ballad. A ballad is “a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.” Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.

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