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sherlock60Welcome once again to my poetry page!
I hope each 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 terza rima.
Mr. Holmes was the one to suggest it, although he did worry it might prove “a little difficult for ladies”. So, in exchange, I said he could try knitting a bed jacket and matching nightcap while I wrote the poem. And as soon as I have published this page, I will be popping off to cut him free.
Young Writers gives the following definition:
A terza rima is an Italian form of poetry first used by Dante Alighieri.
A terza rima consists of stanzas of three lines (or tercets) usually in iambic pentameter. It follows an interlocking rhyming scheme, or chain rhyme. This is where the middle of each stanza rhymes with the first and last line of the following stanza. There is no set length to this form, as long as it follows the pattern as follows:
ABA
BCB
CDC
DED
With the last stanza as a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the previous stanza. In this case, EE.
I believe, taking the previous pattern as an example, you can also simply end the poem after DED with one line, E. Both are acceptable and, though iambic pentameter is usual, there is no set rhythm you have to follow. I myself have chosen to use anapaestic dimeter. (More or less.)
Here is my example:
As always, 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:
221B verselet, 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 Scandal in Bohemia in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
I hope each 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 terza rima.
Mr. Holmes was the one to suggest it, although he did worry it might prove “a little difficult for ladies”. So, in exchange, I said he could try knitting a bed jacket and matching nightcap while I wrote the poem. And as soon as I have published this page, I will be popping off to cut him free.
Young Writers gives the following definition:
A terza rima is an Italian form of poetry first used by Dante Alighieri.
A terza rima consists of stanzas of three lines (or tercets) usually in iambic pentameter. It follows an interlocking rhyming scheme, or chain rhyme. This is where the middle of each stanza rhymes with the first and last line of the following stanza. There is no set length to this form, as long as it follows the pattern as follows:
ABA
BCB
CDC
DED
With the last stanza as a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the previous stanza. In this case, EE.
I believe, taking the previous pattern as an example, you can also simply end the poem after DED with one line, E. Both are acceptable and, though iambic pentameter is usual, there is no set rhythm you have to follow. I myself have chosen to use anapaestic dimeter. (More or less.)
Here is my example:
You talk to your friend
As I bring in the tray
Of the humorous end
To someone’s wedding day.
And it brings to my mind
A bright time far away
When a man sweet and kind
Gave his own name to me.
A name that I find
Suits me elegantly.
So although you’re polite
Perhaps you can see
Why I’m distant a mite
And my expression grows sterner.
You haven’t got it quite right.
It’s a true black-mark earner.
My name is not Turner.
As I bring in the tray
Of the humorous end
To someone’s wedding day.
And it brings to my mind
A bright time far away
When a man sweet and kind
Gave his own name to me.
A name that I find
Suits me elegantly.
So although you’re polite
Perhaps you can see
Why I’m distant a mite
And my expression grows sterner.
You haven’t got it quite right.
It’s a true black-mark earner.
My name is not Turner.
As always, 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:
221B verselet, 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 Scandal in Bohemia in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Warm regards,
Mrs. Hudson
Mrs. Hudson
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Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 08:15 am (UTC)A dilemma was addressed: a duelling duet developed.
Miss Adler and advocate eluded her adversary.
Addendum: a detective was adjusted to admirer.
no subject
Date: 2015-02-08 08:23 am (UTC)Re: Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 08:25 am (UTC)Are you going to write a terza rims, like Mrs Hudson, too?
no subject
Date: 2015-02-08 08:32 am (UTC)Re: Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 08:35 am (UTC)And I think I will be leaving the terza rima for another week... *gives chum a very hard stare*
Re: Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 08:39 am (UTC)Oh...OK
Stop looking at me like that...Mrs H cannot do all the hard work herself, you know.
Tanka
Date: 2015-02-08 09:42 am (UTC)This time denied what he wants
An adversary
Unexpectedly clever
Who is always ‘the woman’
Re: Mr Holmes and Miss Adler define romance.
Date: 2015-02-08 09:46 am (UTC)Re: Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 09:50 am (UTC)He does seem to be rather tied up at the moment.
Re: Scandal...variation on the sestina
Date: 2015-02-08 09:51 am (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2015-02-08 10:18 am (UTC)The king's character comes across so badly in this tale
Re: Mr Holmes and Miss Adler define romance.
Date: 2015-02-08 10:23 am (UTC)Re: Scandal...variation on the sestina
Date: 2015-02-08 10:24 am (UTC)Re: Mr Holmes and Miss Adler define romance.
Date: 2015-02-08 11:00 am (UTC)Re: Mr Holmes and Miss Adler define romance.
Date: 2015-02-08 11:47 am (UTC)I rather like Miss Adler, and feel she was treated badly by the king.
Re: Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 04:54 pm (UTC)Re: Mr Holmes and Miss Adler define romance.
Date: 2015-02-08 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2015-02-08 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: Terza Rima: best laid plans
Date: 2015-02-08 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 06:19 pm (UTC)Re: Tongue Twister Poem
Date: 2015-02-08 06:20 pm (UTC)A Clerihew and a Terza Rima
Date: 2015-02-08 06:23 pm (UTC)Said “I'm not what I am,”
Though anyone with half a brain
Knew him to be a Royal pain.
A kinder harness
My dearest Boswell, come once more with me,
For I observed you passing just this morning,
Your vision lowered, hoping not to see
That well-known door with numbers brass adorning.
But just before you turned away, you chanced
A glance my way- I thank you for the warning.
When next you pass my way, I'll have advanced
A tempting scandal worthy of a king.
Though to my music many men have danced,
There is one voice I most desire to sing
My praise, and so this tender trap I spring.
Re: Mr Holmes and Miss Adler define romance.
Date: 2015-02-08 06:25 pm (UTC)Re: Terza Rima: best laid plans
Date: 2015-02-08 06:25 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2015-02-08 06:29 pm (UTC)