Canon Discussion: A Study in Scarlet

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Hello and welcome to the first discussion post for Round 4! This week we’re having a look at A Study in Scarlet. I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

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Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: A Study in Scarlet

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Greetings to you all, and welcome to my very first poetry page!

I hope that every week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.


This week my featured form is the sedoka.


Shadow Poetry gives the following definition:


The sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A sedoka, a pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.


As an example, here is my humble attempt:

But Mrs. Hudson!
This soil is fascinating—
I can deduce it’s Brixton’s.

Then why, Mister Holmes,
Is it here in my hallway?
I wish you would wipe your feet!

As I say, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

acrostic poetry, clerihew, epigram, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by A Study in Scarlet in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!

Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

A Study in Scarlet: By Any Other Name

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Canon Story: A Study in Scarlet
Title: By Any Other Name
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous.” “Sherlock Holmes” is an unusual name, is it not?



“I know I have it in me to make my name famous,” said Holmes.

“Indeed!” declared his new flatmate. “Soon everyone will know the name ‘Sherwood Holmes’!”

Holmes frowned. “It’s ‘Sherlock’.”

“My apologies,” said Watson. “Everyone will know the name ‘Sherlogg Holmes’!”

“That’s still…”

“‘Sherlott’?”

“No.” Holmes sighed. “Perhaps I don’t have it in me to make my name famous.”

A Study in Scarlet: The Marylebone Monthly Illustrated

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Canon Story: A Study in Scarlet
Title: The Marylebone Monthly Illustrated
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

In order to ring the changes, my contributions to Round 4 will all be taken from The Marylebone Monthly Illustrated which is edited by none other than the compiler of The Ocelot Tales


Firstly, an advertisement:

Now available to let: one suite of rooms in Baker Street for immediate occupation.  Suitable for either one respectable single gentleman or two such gentlemen sharing.  Apartment comprises two comfortable bedrooms plus large sitting room.  All rooms and furnishings in excellent condition.  Rate, to include meals and laundry, available from M Hudson, to whom all initial enquiries should be made.

And also, an article from one the magazine's distinguished contributors:

In the same way that an individual’s profession can be recognised when wearing uniform, it is equally possible to ascertain such information through observation of less obvious clues.  Clothing will be the starting point, but the wear of a collar, or the mud on the boots will assist in the identification for anyone who has trained himself in such matters.
 

A Study in Scarlet: On Sharing Lodgings

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Canon Story: A Study in Scarlet
Title: On Sharing Lodgings
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: * ...a lurker tumbleweed rolls in from the Great Alkali Plain... * I'm sure this has been done before, but I can hardly let STUD pass without posting an entry. It is my favourite of all of canon.

.oOOo.

‘I should prefer having a partner to being alone.’

Stamford mistook my words for those of household economy rather than of loneliness. No matter, I was not seeking new friends. So many had been lost that, if I were a better man, I should have perished from the sheer grief of it, yet now I found my new solitude unbearable.

.oOOo.