Famous Guesswork Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Night Shift

by Sylvia Plath
 It was not a heart, beating. 
That muted boom, that clangor 
Far off, not blood in the ears 
Drumming up and fever 

To impose on the evening. 
The noise came from outside: 
A metal detonating 
Native, evidently, to 

These stilled suburbs nobody 
Startled at it, though the sound 
Shook the ground with its pounding. 
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