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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. "






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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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