Though I've lost who exactly it was that came up with this observation, I remember one of my folklore classes mentioning that ballads exercise a similar technique, which the scholar I can't remember called "leaping and lingering." They might spend multiple stanzas on the moment where someone dies, but then a lengthy journey gets disposed of in a line or two.
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Date: 2020-08-25 06:32 pm (UTC)