Charles Augustus Milverton: Misery

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Title: Charles Augustus Milverton: Misery
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: It’s “miser” with a “y.”

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I used to wish I was rich. What a happy life – no scraping for the grocer’s note, no tossing all night worriting about the waterman and bill collector’s knock.

But he’s rich – and he’s the meanest, coldest feller ever I worked for. What makes him smile sends chills down a natural man’s spine.

Now I just wish for enough money.

Charles Augustus Milverton: Insomnia

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Canon Story: Charles Augustus Milverton
Rating: G
Summary: Some sleep well, some poorly, some forevermore.

"You've made me lose a good night's rest, my dear.”
“Do you sleep, Mister Milverton?”
“Most soundly. The servants often joke that it is impossible to wake me.”
“I don’t sleep. Not since you threatened me, not since you made good on your threat, not since you ruined my happiness, but you shall rest now and so shall I, finally.”

Discussion Post: Charles Augustus Milverton

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is Charles Augustus Milverton and the chosen topic is Courtship.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: Charles Augustus Milverton

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on 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.

Rachel is happily safely back with us now. I must briefly apologise to her—I had been waiting on tenterhooks to see if she would be able to manage to get a poem to me. However, she had in fact given me her submission ahead of time, and I had asked Mr. Holmes to lock it in his drawer for safekeeping.

Whereupon I forgot all about it.

And so, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel and with an updated note, here is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.



The Maldive Shark

By Herman Melville


Note from Rachel: Home again at last! The little pilot fish in this poem remind me of the odious Milverton. Blackmailers may seem to be the small fry of the criminal classes compared to their more directly violent brethren, but Milverton leads the forces of scandal and prejudice to his chosen victims and then stands back to watch them devoured.



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the rhyming alliterisen. (The linked page is headed ‘Alliterisen’. See the bottom of the page for the ‘Rhyming Alliterisen’.)

( Definition and Example )

But you do not have to use this form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, line messaging, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by Charles Augustus Milverton in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

Charles Augustus Milverton: Changing Her Combinations

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Canon Story: The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Title: Changing Her Combinations
Author: scfrankles
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: ...there stood a tall green safe...this green and gold monster, the dragon which held in its maw the reputations of many fair ladies. A CHAS AU, and a follow-up to this BLUE 60.


A strange child kept hidden. The whispers were intriguing enough that Milverton simply had to investigate himself, and—

“Aaaaargh!”

The Countess of Morcar rushed in. “Athelinda! What have I said about reducing blackmailers to ash in the nursery?”

She smiled indulgently at the little dragon.

“Still. It keeps your secret safe until you finally learn how to take human form.”

Charles Augustus Milverton: Sealing An Agreement

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Canon Story: Charles Augustus Milverton
Title: Sealing An Agreement (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: PG

Following Lestrade’s visit this morning when he compared the description of Milverton’s murderer to my own description, he called again this evening.  We agreed certain possible events will never be mentioned between us, and then went on to an act which will never be mentioned except between us.  It seemed the perfect way to seal our understanding of such matters.