Editing Poetry (section)

===Verse fable===
[[File:Per Krafft - Portrait of Bishop Ignacy Krasicki - MNK II-a-671 - National Museum Kraków.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Ignacy Krasicki|Krasicki]]]]
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The fable is an ancient [[literary genre]], often (though not invariably) set in [[Verse (poetry)|verse]]. It is a succinct story that features [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphised]] [[animal]]s, [[legendary creature]]s, [[plant]]s, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that illustrate a moral lesson (a "[[moral]]"). Verse fables have used a variety of [[meter (poetry)|meter]] and [[rhyme]] patterns.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Harpham |first1=Geoffrey Galt |last2=Abrams |first2=M. H. |title=A glossary of literary terms |year=2011 |publisher=Wadsworth Cengage Learning |isbn=978-0-495-89802-3 |edition=10th |page=9}}</ref>

Notable verse fabulists have included [[Aesop]], [[Vishnu Sarma]], [[Phaedrus (fabulist)|Phaedrus]], [[Marie de France]], [[Robert Henryson]], [[Biernat of Lublin]], [[Jean de La Fontaine]], [[Ignacy Krasicki]], [[Félix María de Samaniego]], [[Tomás de Iriarte]], [[Ivan Krylov]], and [[Ambrose Bierce]].