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Famous Misdirection Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Graves, Robert
...(from the Welsh)

May they stumble, stage by stage
On an endless Pilgrimage
Dawn and dusk, mile after mile
At each and every step a stile
At each and every step withal
May they catch their feet and fall
At each and every fall they take
May a bone within them break
And may the bone that breaks within
Not be, for variations sake
Now rib, now thigh, now arm, ...Read more of this...



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