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What are the examples of metrical tale?

Metrical tales are poems or songs that tell a story using a consistent meter, or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Some famous examples include:

* The epic poem "Beowulf" by the Anglo-Saxon poet Cædmon

* The "Canterbury Tales" by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer

* The "Kalevala" by the Finnish poet Elias Lönnrot

* The "Nibelungenlied" by the German poet an unknown author

* The "Odyssey" and the "Iliad" by the ancient Greek poet Homer

* The "Shahnameh" by the Persian poet Ferdowsi

* The "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata" by the Indian poets Valmiki and Vyasa

* The "Song of Hiawatha" by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

* The "Divine Comedy" by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri

* The "Faust" by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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