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Famous Swop Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Yeats, William Butler
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In a young man's bed.'
The Colonel went out sailing.

 III

The Colonel met a pedlar,
Agreed their clothes to swop,
And bought the grandest jewelry
In a Galway shop,
Instead of thread and needle
put jewelry in the pack,
Bound a thong about his hand,
Hitched it on his back.
The Colonel wcnt out sailing.

 IV

The Colonel knocked on the rich man's door,
'I am sorry,' said the maid,
'My mistress cannot see these things,
But she is still abed,
And never have I l...Read more of this...



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