The Problem of Thor Bridge: Go Ask Alice

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Title: The Problem of Thor Bridge: Go Ask Alice
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: One lost ship at sea is a tragedy; two is a coincidence; three is a pact with Poseidon.

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“Good God! The Alicia!” I looked up from the paper.

My friend seemed focused on the pipette of liquid he dripped into a Petri dish. But his smile was savage.

“The captain, a former slaverunner. Crew, some of Moriarty’s worst gang-members never caught. Every passenger…”

I realised that a dozen unsolved murders and ravishments had just been put to rest.

Thor Bridge: Unasked Questions

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Canon Story: Thor Bridge
Rating: Gen

‘The schoolroom of sorrow where our earthly lessons are taught.’

What lessons Holmes had learned, in what schoolrooms? I wondered.

But then remembering Gibson’s statement, that most men have a little private reserve of their own in some corner of their souls where they don’t welcome intruders, I let the matter rest, and we journeyed back to London in silence.

Discussion Post: The Problem of Thor Bridge

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Problem of Thor Bridge and the chosen topic is Children’s Education.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Problem of Thor Bridge

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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.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, 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.



Pity Me Not

By Edna St. Vincent Millay



Thank you so much to Rachel. A poem that could have been written for Mrs. Gibson.

And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: the rispetto.


Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest gives this definition:


Okay, here’s a new form. Actually, scratch that. This is a very old form (from Italy, no less). Still, new to me anyway. I found more than a few definitions, but here are the two most common variations:

Rispetto No.1: Poem comprised of two quatrains written in iambic (unstress, stress) tetrameter (four feet–or, in this case, 8 syllables).

Rispetto No.2: Poem (or song) comprised of 8 hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) lines–usually one stanza.

Both versions appear to follow this rhyme scheme: ababccdd (though I also found a mention of an abababcc pattern). Plus, I found more than a few sources which claim rispettos were originally written to pay “respect” to a woman.

However, over the centuries, this poem has offered itself up for other subjects and variations. So feel free to experiment.


A reminder that a quatrain is a stanza with four lines (so both rispetto forms end up being eight lines long). And a line in iambic tetrameter is ‘te TUM, te TUM, te TUM, te TUM’.



Here is my example (using the second rispetto form):


Sir Sherlock—scientist, knight, thinking machine:
Chivalrous opponent of the fairer sex.
You politely treat me as your honoured queen
And yet, sir, you will not pay me your respects.
Do you honestly think it shows a weak will
Just to think of a woman as your equal?
Dear knight, let neither of us be the vassal!
(And do please stop setting fire to my castle.)


But you do not have to use that 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, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Problem of Thor Bridge in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Problem of Thor Bridge: Wordsmith

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Canon Story: The Problem of Thor Bridge
Title: Wordsmith
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “...she was past her prime…” If I were a sculptor…


“So you will model?”

Mrs. Hudson nodded. “Though… ‘capturing me in my prime’, Doctor? I have no photographs from then.”

Watson frowned. “I meant now. Your wisdom… elegance...”

“Always picking the perfect thing to say.” Mrs. Hudson beamed. “You’re… a sculptor of words!”

Watson blushed. “You’ll be equally pleased by what I do with your bust!”

“Yes…” said Mrs. Hudson.

Thor Bridge: Hard-Boiled Eggs

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Canon Story: Thor Bridge
Title: Hard-Boiled Eggs (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Holmes may believe the state of the eggs reflects our temporary cook’s love of romantic fiction.  I suspect this has rather more to do with the incessant night-time violin playing and endless pipe smoking he is currently inflicting upon all of us.  Hopefully this case will restore not only Holmes’ mood, but that of our rather maligned cook as well.