İşte İngilizce dilinde birkaç kısa şiir örneği: 1. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" (Anonim): > Twinkle, twinkle, little star, > How I wonder what you are! > Up above the world so high, > Like a diamond in the sky. 2. "Rain, Rain, Go Away" (Nursery Rhyme): > Rain, rain, go away, > Come again another day. > Little Johnny wants to play, > Rain, rain, go away. 3. "The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost): > Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, > And sorry I could not travel both > And be one traveler, long I stood > And looked down one as far as I could. 4. "Sonnet 18" (William Shakespeare): > Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? > Thou art more lovely and more temperate: > Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, > And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.