Famous Deviating Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Deviating poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous deviating poems. These examples illustrate what a famous deviating poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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100. Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's

by Robert Burns
 THOU flatt’ring mark of friendship kind,
Still may thy pages call to mind
 The dear, the beauteous donor;
Tho’ sweetly female ev’ry part,
Yet such a head, and more the heart
 Does both the sexes honour:
She show’d her taste refin’d and just,
 When she selected thee;
Yet deviating, own I must,
 For sae approving me:
 But kind still I’ll mind still
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