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Famous Scraper Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...e’er return:
The comfort but a hearty can,
When I think on John Highlandman.
 Sing hey, &c.


RecitativoA pigmy scraper wi’ his fiddle,
Wha us’d at trystes an’ fairs to driddle.
Her strappin limb and gausy middle
 (He reach’d nae higher)
Had hol’d his heartie like a riddle,
 An’ blawn’t on fire.


Wi’ hand on hainch, and upward e’e,
He croon’d his gamut, one, two, three,
Then in an arioso key,
 The wee Apoll
Set off wi’ allegretto glee
 His giga solo.


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by Lanier, Sidney
...n it, SO:
A-readin' of a paper.
His mules was goin' powerful slow,
Fur he had tied the lines onto
The staple of the scraper.

The mules they stopped about a rod
From me, and went to feedin'
'Longside the road, upon the sod,
But Jones (which he had tuck a tod)
Not knowin', kept a-readin'.

And presently says he: "Hit's true;
That Clisby's head is level.
Thar's one thing farmers all must do,
To keep themselves from goin' tew
Bankruptcy and the devil!

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