Famous Metric Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Metric poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous metric poems. These examples illustrate what a famous metric poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Schwartz, Delmore
...ry human being.
I will remember this. My mother's rhetoric
Has charmed my various tongue, but now I know
Love's metric seeks a rhyme more pure and sure.
For thus it is that I betray myself,
Passing the terror of childhood at second hand
Through nervous, learned fingertips.
At thirteen when a little girl died,
I walked for three weeks neither alive nor dead,
And could not understand and still cannot
The adult blind to the nearness of the dead,
Or carefully ign...Read more of this...
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