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What is the longest poem in the world?
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#3110. Asked by kss.
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McGruff
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Bhagavad Gita - Lit. Bhagavad refers to Almighty God, Gita means song. Song of God. Spiritual poem comprising 18 chapters of the epic book Mahabharata, which has over one hundred thousand verses. The longest poem in the world of heroic literature, it interweaves idealism and practical wisdom with a passionate longing for spiritual vision. The Bhagavad Gita, a symbolic dialogue between Arjuna and Lord Krishna is set on a field of battle and represents the great spiritual struggle of the human Soul. (See Mahabharata.)
http://www.aimnet.com/~amidaprs/ttwglossary.html
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mneumonic
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I think it is Shahnameh (Book of Kings) of Firdawsi (d. 1020)
It has more than 60,000 rhyming couplets and is seven times the length of Homer's Iliad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi
[Added reference - McG]
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Roxanne33
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The world's longest poem is the Mahabharata, an epic containing 100,000 couplets in some 18 books. Composed thousands of years ago in India, the Mahabharata was recently made into a TV series that became a smash hit in modern India.
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