Famous Diameter Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Diameter poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous diameter poems. These examples illustrate what a famous diameter poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and circumference,
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon....Read more of this...
by
Lindsay, Vachel
...nd the very distant sound of the sheep.
It was the final circle with the Adolf Hitler, but friendly,
shepherd as the diameter. He was camping down there for
the night. So in the dusk, the blue smoke from our campfire
went down and got in there with the bellmare.
The sheep lulled themselves into senseless sleep, one following
another like the banners of a lost army. I have here a very
important message that just arrived a few moments ago.
It says "Stalingrad. "
...Read more of this...
by
Brautigan, Richard
...g through space—speeding through heaven and the stars;
Speeding amid the seven satellites, and the broad ring, and the diameter of
eighty thousand miles;
Speeding with tail’d meteors—throwing fire-balls like the rest;
Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing;
I tread day and night such roads.
I visit the orchards of spheres, and l...Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
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