epyllion
/ɪˈpɪlɪən
/ /ɛˈpɪlɪən/noun (plural epyllia /ɪˈpɪlɪə/ /ɛˈpɪlɪə/)
A narrative poem that resembles an epic poem in style, but which is notably shorter.This meditation is complicated by the fact that 'Lucrece' is an epyllion, a hybrid genre characterized both by its deployment of vivid description and by its treatment of epic subjects....
- Perhaps the finest specimen of this hexametric renascence, however, was Charles Kingsley's mythopoetic epyllion 'Andromeda'.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek epullion, diminutive of epos 'word, song', from eipein 'say'.