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http://scfrankles.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] sherlock602015-06-07 08:31 am
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Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Musgrave Ritual

Welcome 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 call and response.

TV Tropes gives this definition (specifically for songs, but I see no reason why it cannot be adapted to apply to poetry too):

Call-and-response is a form of music sung by (or at least from the perspective of) two or more people. Rather than sing the same part or do different verses, one person sings a statement, the other gives a reply to it.

Here is my example poem:


Where, oh, where can the carpet be?

It’s buried under Cases A-G!

And wasn’t there a sofa too?

It’s buried under Cases H-Q!

And has the doctor gone to bed?

No, the poor man’s buried under Cases R-Z!




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, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, blackout poetry, call and response, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, riddle, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Musgrave Ritual in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)

Re: A clerihew

[personal profile] debriswoman 2015-06-07 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep...it is entirely possible to be too mysterious:-p
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)

Re: A Chain Rhyme: Priorities

[personal profile] debriswoman 2015-06-07 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you...and I appreciate you picking up on the form fitting the subject...like picking an appropriate tune.
It was such an endearing sequence of events:-)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)

Re: Cinquains: Baker Street

[personal profile] debriswoman 2015-06-07 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you:-)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)

Re: Call and response: Denial.

[personal profile] debriswoman 2015-06-07 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much:-)
Another form I had not come across as a specific name, though I can think of a couple of Kipling poems which employ it.
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)

The poetry of Mrs H

[personal profile] debriswoman 2015-06-07 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful, ma'am:-)
And I hope the good doctor made a full recovery.
Edited 2015-06-07 17:01 (UTC)

Doggerell

[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
He has cigars in the coal scuttle, tobacco in the slipper
Not eating meals for days on end, and then he wants a kipper
Nasty smells by day or night, something unpleasant in the butter
Strange visitors calling at all hours, including the odd nutter
His letters fastened by a knife, bullet holes in the wall
There’s nothing much will surprise her now, I think she's seen it all!

Re: A clerihew

[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
One feels the original Musgrave would have been sadly disappointed with his descendants.

Re: A Chain Rhyme: Priorities

[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
One can sense Holmes' mind working - if I distract him with this and then this and ...

Re: Cinquains: Baker Street

[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Watson to a "T"

Re: The poetry of Mrs H

[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I presume Mr Holmes opinion was the poor doctor was in the correct section.

[identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Well written, Mrs Hudson. If only it were that simple...

Re: A clerihew

[identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice! It certainly confirms my Parliamentarian prejudices about Charles' supporters.

Re: Cinquains: Baker Street

[identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Bravo! Mind you, a Jack knife is an effective paperweight, if you don't mind the spoiled legibility.

Re: Call and response: Denial.

[identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I can think of quite a few suspense writers who would turn bright green. And such a strong end, too.

Re: Doggerell

[identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com 2015-06-07 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely too good to be doggerell. Thank you!

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