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Famous Mousetrap Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia 
...How this tart fable instructs
And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap
Set in the proverbs stitched on samplers
Approving chased girls who get them to a tree
And put on bark's nun-black

Habit which deflects
All amorous arrows. For to sheathe the virgin shape
In a scabbard of wood baffles pursuers,
Whether goat-thighed or god-haloed. Ever since that first Daphne
Switched her incomparable back

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