The Resident Patient: Clerihews

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Author: mundungus42
Rating: G

Inspector Lanner
Not a planner,
Couldn't be accused of snobbery,
For letting Sherlock solve the Worthingdon robbery.

Little Biddle
Played the fiddle
Diddled by Sutton's informing,
That very man he won't be mourning.

Norah Criena
On Watson's antenna,
For sinking somewhere off the shore of Lisbon
And failing to convey the gang to Brisbane.

One wonders why the doctor
When given his copious cash to proctor
A patient in his residence
Did so while lacking precedence?

Perhaps Trevelyan
Observed his benefactor ailin',
Deduced the cause, succumbed to rage,
Conveniently blaming it on the page.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

That last verse is brilliant - good idea!

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Of course, Trevelyn couldn't let his coup de grace go unnoticed, so of course he had to bring Sherlock Holmes into it :D

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Really impressive. All those, and all good, with a strong end. The Norah Criena one is delightful!

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Clerihews are enormous fun to do, plus, they help me remember obscure character names :D

[vaysh]

That is impressive: five takes on the story in five clerihews. Wonderful rhymes. :)

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your kind words! I have no idea why I find Clerihews such a satisfactory form, but I am having a great deal of fun with them!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I'm rather taken with the second-to-last. Some rather nifty literary footwork going on there ^^

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

*giggles* There's such a rich tradition of reading between the lines amongst the Sherlockian crowd. I couldn't resist doing a bit of it myself :D Thank you so much!