Famous Improvising Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Crazed Girl

by William Butler Yeats
 That crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.

No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
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