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Famous Drumbeat Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day--
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl....Read more of this...
by Hughes, Langston



...e some remorseful mine, giving and giving
everything green and white: white sky, white
water, and the dull green like a drumbeat
of the slow-sliding forest, the green heat;
then, on some sandbar, a mirage ahead:
fabric of muslin sails, spiderweb rigging,
a schooner, foundered on black river mud,
was rising slowly up from the riverbed,
and a top-hatted native reading an inverted
newspaper.
 "Where's our Queen?" Koenig shouted.
"Where's our Kaiser?"
 The ****** disappeared.
Koe...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

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