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What is a clozed poem?
         A clozed poem is one in which certain words of the poem have been deleted and replaced with blank lines as in the poem "I Know A Lady" by Joyce Carol Thomas.
 

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       I know a lady
       A careful queen
       She bows to _____ _____
       Her will is a 
5     Fine thread of steel

       Her blessing is a 
       Smile
       Sinking its sails
       Inside

10   _____ followed her around
       The day she reached forty
       Very few people knew --
       Her face said twenty-two

       Now somebody's embroidered silver
15   In her hair and sketched
       A ______ her and there

       I know a lady
       A careful queen
       She bows to _____ _____
 
 
 

Farrell, E., Cohen, R.S., Christensen, L.J., & Wright, H.K. (Eds.).  (1979).  Purpose in literature.  Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman.