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Idyll or Idyl

Either a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events set in the distant past.
" Idylls of the King" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
See also pastoral.

 


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