Famous Suspensions Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Suspensions poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous suspensions poems. These examples illustrate what a famous suspensions poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Browning, Robert
...he clavichord?
VII
What? Those lesser thirds so plaintive, sixths diminished sigh on sigh,
Told them something? Those suspensions, those solutions—"Must we die?"
Those commiserating sevenths—"Life might last! we can but try!"
VIII
"Were you happy?"—"Yes."—"And are you still as happy?"—"Yes—and you?"
—"Then, more kisses!"—"Did I stop them, when a million seemed so few?"
Hark—the dominant's persistence till it must be answered to!
IX
So an octave struck the answer.Read more of this...
by
Kraniotis, Dimitris P
...Des vagues d’accents circonflexes,
une mer fâchée d’adverbes,
des moulins de verbes,
des coquillages de points de suspensions,
sur l’île de poèmes
de l’âme,
du cerveau,
de la pensée,
des vêtements monolectiques
que tu portes
pour en avoir assez !...Read more of this...
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