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Famous Monosyllabic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...A monosyllabic European called Sax
Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted
Brazen clarinet, but with its column of vibrating
Air shaped not in a cylinder but in a cone
Widening ever outward and bawaah spouting
Infinitely upward through an upturned
Swollen golden bell rimmed
Like a gloxinia flowering
In Sax's Belgian imagination

And in the unfath...Read more of this...
by Pinsky, Robert



...LET me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord.
Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool,
 on a child.
To-day, let me be monosyllabic … a crony of old men
 who wash sunlight in their fingers and
 enjoy slow-pacing clocks....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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