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Famous Rankless Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...kite in the blue Egyptian sky, 
But he's only a hero built to plan, turned out by the Army schools, 
And I sing of the rankless, thankless man who hustles the Army mules. 
Now where he comes from and where he lives is a mystery dark and dim, 
And it's rarely indeed that the General gives a D.S.O. to him. 
The stolid infantry digs its way like a mole in a ruined wall; 
The cavalry lends a tone, they say, to what were else but a brawl; 
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