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heroic poem

n. a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds [syn: epic poem, epic, epos]

Usage examples of "heroic poem".

At breakfast he still wore the crusted stripes of blood on his beaming grubby face and Michael read aloud the heroic poem he had written in Garry's honour.

Taita had composed a heroic poem to honour the occasion and, like all his creative efforts, it was an instant, overwhelming success.

Even the grim psycho-drama of hair-loss has become a mere subplot in the heroic poem of his thoughts (Can Mary Love A Completely Bald Man?

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.