Famous Symmetrical Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Belly Good

...n see you as a great goose egg 
or a single juicy and fully ripe peach. 
You swell like a natural grassy hill. 
You are symmetrical as a Hopewell mound, 
with the eye of the navel wide open, 
the eye of my apple, the pear's port 
window. You're not supposed to exist 
at all this decade. You're to be flat 
as a kitchen table, so children with 
roller skates can speed over you 
like those sidewalks of my childhood 
that each gave a different roar under 
my wheels. You're requir...Read more of this...
by Piercy, Marge


Fit the Fifth ( Hunting of the Snark )

...salt it in glue: 
You condense it with locusts and tape: 
Still keeping one principal object in view-- 
To preserve its symmetrical shape." 

The Butcher would gladly have talked till next day, 
But he felt that the lesson must end, 
And he wept with delight in attempting to say 
He considered the Beaver his friend. 

While the Beaver confessed, with affectionate looks 
More eloquent even than tears, 
It had learned in ten minutes far more than all books 
Would have taught it...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

The Hunting Of The Snark

...salt it in glue:
 You condense it with locusts and tape:
Still keeping one principal object in view--
 To preserve its symmetrical shape."

The Butcher would gladly have talked till next day,
 But he felt that the Lesson must end,
And he wept with delight in attempting to say
 He considered the Beaver his friend.

While the Beaver confessed, with affectionate looks
 More eloquent even than tears,
It had learned in ten minutes far more than all books
 Would have taught it in ...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

The Lilies

...and made a music of the light, as it had waked
and sung in fragile things unnumbered years,
and left their kind no less symmetrical and fair
for all that time. Does my land have the health
of this, where nothing falls but into life?...Read more of this...
by Berry, Wendell

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