Welcome to my moderately skilled analysis of famous poetry (form, rhyme scheme, meter, what I think the message happens to be, etc.) Well, I usually do the analysis. I probably just posted the poem and phoned in the analysis on a few of these. Leave a comment requesting that I deliver on my poetry promises if you discover some lazy blogging.
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The poets are searchable below by the first letters of their surnames.
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z
A
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
+ No Songs In Winter
Angelou, Maya
+ Still I Rise
Auden, W.H.
+ Funeral Blues
B
Bacon, Francis
+ Help Lord
Berry, Wendell
+ The Peace of Wild Things
Blake, William
+ A Divine Image
+ Jerusalem
+ A Poison Tree
+ The Tyger
Brontë, Emily
+ Fall Leaves Fall
+ It Will Not Shine Again
Brooks, Gwendolyn
+ We Real Cool
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
+ Sonnet 43
Burns, Robert
+ A Red, Red Rose
Byron, Lord
+ She Walks in Beauty
C
Carroll, Lewis
+ Jabberwocky
Causley, Charles
+ I Am the Song
Chairne (Lady)
+ Bonnie Charlie
Chesterton, G.K.
+ Elegy In a Country Churchyard
+ The Donkey
+ The Rolling English Road
Crane, Stephen
+ Behold, the grave of a wicked man
+ I Stood Upon a High Place
+ I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon
+ In The Desert
+ The Wayfarer
+ Three Little Birds
Cummings, E.E.
+ l(a
D
Dickinson, Emily
+ Because I could not stop for Death
+ “Hope” is the thing with feathers
+ I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
+ I had no time to Hate —
+ I heard a fly buzz – when I died –
+ My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
+ Tell all the truth but tell it slant—
Donne, John
+ Holy Sonnet VII: At the Round Earth’s Imagin’d Corners, Blow
+ Holy Sonnet X: Death, be not proud
+ No Man is an Island
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
+ We Wear the Mask
E
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
+ Brahma
+ Concord Hymn
F
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
+ Rain Before Dawn
+ The Staying Up All Night
Frost, Robert
+ Desert Places
+ Dust of Snow
+ Fire and Ice
+ Nothing Gold Can Stay
+ A Question
+ Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
+ The Freedom of the Moon
+ The Road Not Taken
G
Gillilan, Strickland
+ Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
+ Erlkönig
Guest, Edgar Albert
+ See It Through
H
Hayden, Robert
+ Those Winter Sundays
H.D.
+ The Pool
Hemingway, Ernest
+ All Armies Are The Same
+ Ultimately
Henley, William Ernest
+ Invictus
Herbert, George
+ The Altar
Hood, Thomas
+ Silence
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr.
+ The Last Leaf
+ Old Ironsides
Housman, A.E.
+ Into My Heart an Air That Kills
Hughes, Langston
+ Dreams
+ Harlem
+ Island
+ I, Too
+ Quiet Girl
+ So Tired Blues
+ Still Here
Hughes, Ted
+ Snowdrop
Hulme, T.E.
+ Autumn
J
Joyce, James
+ A Prayer
+ At That Hour
+ Bahnhofstrasse
+ She Weeps Over Rahoon
+ The Twilight Turns
K
Keats, John
+ Bright Star
+ When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
Kipling, Rudyard
+ The Beginnings
+ IF—
+ Mesopotamia
Kobayashi Issa
+ [goes out comes back]
+ Mosquito at my ear—
+ The Snow is Melting
L
Lazarus, Emma
+ The New Colossus
Lewis, C.S.
+ After Prayers, Lie Cold
+ The Country of the Blind
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
+ A Psalm of Life
+ The Arrow and the Song
+ The Rainy Day
M
MacKay, Charles
+ No Enemies
Matsuo Bashō
+ From time to time
+ In the Twilight Rain
+ The Old Pond
McCrae, John
+ In Flanders Fields
Melville, Herman
+ The Apparition
Mercer, Leigh
+ A Dozen, a Gross, and a Score
Merriam, Eve
+ The Coward
Milton, John
+ How Soon Hath Time
+ When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
N
Nash, Ogden
+ A Caution To Everybody
+ A Word to Husbands
+ Crossing the Border
+ Old Men
+ The Duck
+ The Firefly
+ The Fly
Natsume Sōseki
+ Over the Wintry
+ The Crow Has Flown Away
+ The Lamp Once Out
Newman, John Henry
+ Lead, Kindly Light
O
Owen, Wilford
+ Anthem for Doomed Youth
P
Plath, Sylvia
+ Metaphors
Poe, Edgar Allen
+ A Dream Within A Dream
+ Eldorado
+ TO —
Pound, Ezra
+ In a Station of the Metro
R
Rittenhouse, Jessie B
+ The Door of Dreams
Rossetti, Christina
+ A Daughter of Eve
+ A Dirge
+ As froth on the face of the deep
+ Good Friday
+ In the Bleak Midwinter
+ Remember
+ The Rainbow
+ Up-Hill
+ What Are Heavy?
+ Who Has Seen the Wind?
S
Sandburg, Carl
+ Fog
Shakespeare, William
+ Sonnet 3
+ Sonnet 18
+ Sonnet 27
+ Sonnet 29
+ Sonnet 44
+ Sonnet 116
+ Sonnet 130
Shakur, Tupac
+ The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
+ Ozymandias
Silverstein, Shel
+ Friendship
+ Put Something In
+ Snowball
Stevens, Wallace
+ The Disillusionment of Ten O’clock
+ The Plot Against the Giant
+ The Snow Man
Stevenson, Robert Louis
+ Autumn Fires
+ Farewell to the Farm
+ Happy Thought
+ The Land of Nod
Sydney, Sir Philip
+ Sonnet 1
T
Teasdale, Sara
+ There Will Come Soft Rains
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
+ Break, Break, Break
+ Crossing the Bar
+ Tears, Idle Tears
+ The Charge of the Light Brigade
+ The Eagle
+ The Kraken
Thomas, Dylan
+ Do not go gentle into that good night
Thomas, Edward
+ Thaw
+ The Dark Forest
Tolkien, J.R.R.
+ All Woods Must Fail
+ In Western Lands Beneath the Sun
+ Song of Aragorn
+ The Lament for the Rohirrim
+ The Road Goes Ever On
Twain, Mark
+ Warm Summer Sun
U
Unknown
+ Foweles in the Frith
+ Roses are Red
W
Whitman, Walt
+ A Noiseless Patient Spider
+ I Dream’d A Dream
+ I Hear America Singing
+ O Captain! My Captain!
Whittier, John Greenleaf
+ An Easter Flower Gift
+ Ichabod!
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
+ Solitude
Williams, William Carlos
+ This Is Just To Say
Wordsworth, William
+ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
+ My Heart Leaps Up
+ The World Is Too Much With Us
Y
Yeats, William Butler
+ Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
+ A Poet To His Beloved
+ Death