 Of the two, divan poetry was by far the dominant stream.Until the 19th century, Ottoman prose did not contain any examples of fiction; that is, there were no counterparts to, for instance, the European romance, short story, or novel (though analogous genres did, to some extent, exist in both the Turkish folk tradition and in divan poetry).Until the 19th century, Ottoman prose never managed to develop to the extent that contemporary divan poetry did.