Famous Metronomic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Grandad And A Pramload Of Clocks

...right tool to the right cog
and with movements 
as unpredictable as the pram’s
will wind and counter-wind
the scrap to metronomic life.

And at the pub, 
at the Grey Horse or Houldsworth,
furtive as unpaid tax,
Rolex and Timex 
and brands beneath naming
will change hands for the price of a bevy,
a fish supper
or a down payment 
on early retirement
on a horse called Clockwork
running in the three-thirty at Aintree.



 John Lindley...Read more of this...
by Lindley, John


The Blues

...hich I'd clatter
with that boy tied like a bell around my throat,

a brave man and a coward both,
to break and break my metronomic heart
and just enough to learn to love the blues....Read more of this...
by Matthews, William

Young Bullfrogs

...ches along prairie roads of Northern Illinois
Filled the arch of night with young bullfrog songs.
Infinite mathematical metronomic croaks rose and spoke,
Rose and sang, rose in a choir of puzzles.
They made his head ache with riddles of music.
They rested his head with beaten cadence.
Jimmy Wimbledon listened....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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