Question

Identify the subgenre this poem belongs to:
Sonnet
Limerick
free verse
ballad
Done
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling (excerpt)
"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade. "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said. For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment's in 'ollow square—they're hangin' him to-day; They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his

Answer 1

The subgenre of the given poem is BALLAD.

Danny Reever is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. In 1890, it was one of the first of the Barrack-Room ballads. It is about a British soldier who is being executed in India. The execution was in full view of his regiment. The poem is composed of the remarks made by the spectators as they watch the soldier being hanged.