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Famous Gradient Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Heaney, Seamus
...n the world
where springs washed into
the shiny grass

and darkened cobbles
in the bed of the lane.
Anahorish, soft gradient
of consonant, vowel-meadow,

after-image of lamps
swung through the yards
on winter evenings.
With pails and barrows

those mound-dwellers
go waist-deep in mist
to break the light ice
at wells and dunghills....Read more of this...



by Nemerov, Howard
...Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned into pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.

There came a moment that you couldn't tell.
And then they clearly flew instead of fell....Read more of this...

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