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Famous Punitive Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ll, it is Saint Hilda’s

Tinny tone, one note repeated, tolling

Birth and death and all that lies

Between, insistent, punitive, breaking

The Sabbath’s silence and the bell

Rope like a hangman’s noose, hymnals

Like tawses, incense like choking fog

The procession to the altar a parade

Of the dead and God was over the road

In the pink and blue threaded lupins

Massed behind the rusted padlock of

The gate to the unused path by the

Bridge over the railway.



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by Tebb, Barry



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