Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere,
And whiter than the mist that all day long
Had held the field of battle was the King:
"Hearest thou this great voice that shakes the world,
And wastes the narrow realm whereon we move,
And beats upon the faces of the dead,
My dead, as tho' they had not died for me?-
O Bedivere, for on my heart hath fallen
Confusion, till I know not what I am,
Nor whence I am, nor whether I will be King.
Behold, I seem but King among the dead."
Another famous narrative poem type is the Arthurian narrative poems like Idylls of the King. A poetic tale of Arthur and his round table, "Idylls of the King: the Passing of Arthur" use blank verse to tell the death of Arthur through his fatal wound from Mordred. Love, intrigue, mystery, magic, and of course Arthurian heroes, are required to weave a great Arthurian narrative poem.