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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 the villanelle.
poets.org gives this definition:
The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem’s two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2.
Contemporary poets have… loosened the fixed form to allow variations on the refrains.
Here is my example poem, based on my own small role in this particular adventure:
Drama is his masterstroke
Behold that mischievous gleam
Mr. Holmes does like a joke
Earlier my household woke
Now he arrives under his own steam
Drama is his masterstroke
He’s in my kitchen and thus he spoke:
“I need you on my team.”
Mr. Holmes does like a joke
I see myself as decent folk
But somehow got involved in his scheme
Drama is his masterstroke
His client seemed a nervous bloke
From up above I hear the scream
Mr. Holmes does like a joke
Now Mr. Phelps begins to choke
Brandy pours in a stream
Some day his drama will give a client a stroke
But Mr. Holmes does like a joke.
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, alexandrine, blackout poetry, call and response, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, ghazal, haiku, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, riddle, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Naval Treaty in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Warm regards,
Mrs. Hudson
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 the villanelle.
poets.org gives this definition:
The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem’s two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2.
Contemporary poets have… loosened the fixed form to allow variations on the refrains.
Here is my example poem, based on my own small role in this particular adventure:
Behold that mischievous gleam
Mr. Holmes does like a joke
Earlier my household woke
Now he arrives under his own steam
Drama is his masterstroke
He’s in my kitchen and thus he spoke:
“I need you on my team.”
Mr. Holmes does like a joke
I see myself as decent folk
But somehow got involved in his scheme
Drama is his masterstroke
His client seemed a nervous bloke
From up above I hear the scream
Mr. Holmes does like a joke
Now Mr. Phelps begins to choke
Brandy pours in a stream
Some day his drama will give a client a stroke
But Mr. Holmes does like a joke.
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, alexandrine, blackout poetry, call and response, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, ghazal, haiku, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, riddle, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Naval Treaty in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 07:57 am (UTC)A lover of humour and hoax
Did a series of practical jokes.
I now keep the brandy
Somewhere damn handy:
Four breakdowns, three faintings, two strokes.
Re: A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 08:06 am (UTC)Re: A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 08:29 am (UTC)But it is almost endearing how clueless Holmes is in this area.
Re: A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 09:02 am (UTC)Re: A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 09:06 am (UTC)"Sproggs & Wanton, Vintners. Purveyor of fine wines and spirits, brandy and gin a speciality. Highly recommended by a respectable establishment in Baker Street."
Re: A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 03:53 pm (UTC)Re: A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 11:30 am (UTC)Re: A limerick inspired by Mrs. H’s villanelle, and in the voice of Dr. Watson.
Date: 2015-07-12 03:54 pm (UTC)Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 08:05 am (UTC)The treaty, gone. Percy’s not strong,
Fears scandal, career all gone wrong.
Holmes reasoned and saw,
Coshed the brother-in-law –
“It was under your arse all along!”
Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 08:19 am (UTC)Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 08:25 am (UTC)Rather fond of "coshed the brother-in-law" as well ^^
Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 04:53 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 05:10 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 06:31 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 11:33 am (UTC)Re: Limerick: Naval Treaty
Date: 2015-07-12 04:54 pm (UTC)More Doggerel (because that's what I'm best at)
Date: 2015-07-12 08:59 am (UTC)And for Percy Phelps that was true
His aristocratic connections
Still meant his shins were black and blue
Re: More Doggerel (because that's what I'm best at)
Date: 2015-07-12 11:35 am (UTC)Re: More Doggerel (because that's what I'm best at)
Date: 2015-07-12 12:47 pm (UTC)Re: More Doggerel (because that's what I'm best at)
Date: 2015-07-12 03:57 pm (UTC)Re: More Doggerel (because that's what I'm best at)
Date: 2015-07-12 04:47 pm (UTC)Re: More Doggerel (because that's what I'm best at)
Date: 2015-07-12 04:21 pm (UTC)Re: More Doggerel (because that's what I'm best at)
Date: 2015-07-12 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Rose...Watson is curious
Date: 2015-07-12 12:49 pm (UTC)Re: Rose...Watson is curious
Date: 2015-07-12 02:14 pm (UTC)Re: Rose...Watson is curious
Date: 2015-07-12 04:02 pm (UTC)And this is such an interesting conversation between Watson and Holmes. I think perhaps you have Watson asking what the reader would like to, given the chance.
Re: Rose...Watson is curious
Date: 2015-07-12 05:24 pm (UTC)Re: Rose...Watson is curious
Date: 2015-07-12 04:24 pm (UTC)Re: Rose...Watson is curious
Date: 2015-07-12 05:25 pm (UTC)Re: A Villain's Villanelle
Date: 2015-07-12 12:50 pm (UTC)Re: A Villain's Villanelle
Date: 2015-07-12 02:14 pm (UTC)Re: A Villain's Villanelle
Date: 2015-07-12 04:09 pm (UTC)You make the form look so easy - it all reads so naturally. And I love the title ^_^
Re: A Villain's Villanelle
Date: 2015-07-12 05:26 pm (UTC)Re: A Villain's Villanelle
Date: 2015-07-12 04:27 pm (UTC)Re: A Villain's Villanelle
Date: 2015-07-12 05:27 pm (UTC)The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-12 11:32 am (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-12 12:51 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-12 04:06 pm (UTC)I've borrowed the brandy.
Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-12 04:54 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-12 04:05 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-12 05:26 pm (UTC)