Sorting Poetry
This type tells a story.
Narrative
The love of Bess's life has this disreputable job.
Highwayman
This mama dreams of going somewhere where they don't speak English.
Mrs. Gibbs (Julia)
This smarty pants dies in childbirth.
Emily Webb-Gibbs
An odd nail on this digit caused Mr. Budd to consider that he might be serving a murderer.
Thumb
This type is meant to be sung
Lyric
In "The Highwayman," these good guys are meant to arrest the bad guys... but they do so by assaulting a young woman.
The Redcoats
This baseball enthusiast is bored with everyone adoring him and falls for the girl who isn't impressed.
George Gibbs
This Civil War buff often suffers from interrupted sleep.
Dr. Gibbs
This soiled item on Jabez Wilson's assistant's clothing confirmed Sherlock's suspicion.
Dirty knees
This type is meant to be performed
Bess sacrifices herself for the life of the man she loves, which draws a comparison to this Biblical being.
Christ
This Canada-report-writer dies of appendicitis on a Boy Scout trip.
Wally Webb
This alcoholism sufferer asked for musical notes rather than words on his tombstone.
Simon Stimson
The offending eye in "A Tell-Tale Heart" was compared to that of this avian creature.
Vulture
This subcategory of narrative poetry was originally always sung and can also include poems that were written in the style of songs that tell a story.
Ballad
The writer of the morally complicated poem "The Highwayman" is this Englishman.
Alfred Noyes
This newspaper editor is called upon to give information about the culture and demographics of Grover's Corners.
Mr. Webb
This omniscient fella can make a mean strawberry phosphate and officiate your wedding.
The Stage Manager
Jabez Wilson sought help from Sherlock Holmes because he valued the money from his important job of copying this reference book.
Encylopedia Brittanica
"The Ballad of the Harp Weaver" was written by this interested lady.
Edna St. Vincent Millet
Tim has this job. He presumably reports some suspicious activities, but does so with an ulterior motive.
Ostler
This lady loves gossip and weddings.
Mrs. Soames
This chica bails on New Hampshire to make her dollar bills in Ohio.
Rebecca Gibbs
In "The Raven," the narrator hears an uncanny tapping sound while he is brooding over the loss of this lady.
Lenore