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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 elegiac couplet.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually
of smaller scale than the epic. Each couplet usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work.
Each couplet consist of a hexameter verse followed by a pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion. Note that - is a long syllable, u a short syllable, and U is either one long syllable or two short syllables:
- U | - U | - U | - U | - u u | - -
- U | - U | - || - u u | - u u | -
The form was felt by the ancients to contrast the rising action of the first verse with a falling quality in the second.
Well, of course this story refers back to a very unhappy time for everyone that knows Mr. Holmes.
Here is my example couplet:
Drove me insane with his clients, explosions and shooting at my wall.
Chaos and litter and noise... Longed for it, once he was gone.
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, elegiac couplet, 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 Final Problem 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 elegiac couplet.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually
of smaller scale than the epic. Each couplet usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work.
Each couplet consist of a hexameter verse followed by a pentameter verse. The following is a graphic representation of its scansion. Note that - is a long syllable, u a short syllable, and U is either one long syllable or two short syllables:
- U | - U | - U | - U | - u u | - -
- U | - U | - || - u u | - u u | -
The form was felt by the ancients to contrast the rising action of the first verse with a falling quality in the second.
Well, of course this story refers back to a very unhappy time for everyone that knows Mr. Holmes.
Here is my example couplet:
Chaos and litter and noise... Longed for it, once he was gone.
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, elegiac couplet, 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 Final Problem in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 07:06 am (UTC)Why not get Watson to thump Moriarty instead?
Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 07:22 am (UTC)Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-19 07:54 am (UTC)We flee, exiles on foreign shore.
And I left my post
When he needed me most –
Write no more, John Watson, no more.
Re: Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-19 08:28 am (UTC)Re: Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-19 11:30 am (UTC)And, poor Watson:-(
Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 11:31 am (UTC)Could rename story " The final Round", or something...
The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-19 11:32 am (UTC)Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 12:56 pm (UTC)Re: Couplet...Watson
Date: 2015-07-19 01:00 pm (UTC)But your couplet is so very well-written - sums up so elegantly that dreadful time, especially "frantic and dark thoughts".
Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-19 01:06 pm (UTC)A consulting detective,
A conductor of light;
A Reichenbach chess game
Of black versus white.
Re: Watson writes on...1
Date: 2015-07-19 01:07 pm (UTC)Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 01:10 pm (UTC)Re: A few months on...
Date: 2015-07-19 01:10 pm (UTC)Re: Couplet...Watson
Date: 2015-07-19 01:11 pm (UTC)Thank you, Mrs H:-)
Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-19 01:11 pm (UTC)Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-19 01:12 pm (UTC)Of course, I might be wrong...
Re: Watson writes on...1
Date: 2015-07-19 01:12 pm (UTC)Re: And a final Final Problem verse...for Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-19 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: A few months on...
Date: 2015-07-19 01:14 pm (UTC)And, yes...it was odd...nothing else considered
Re: And a final Final Problem verse...for Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-19 01:14 pm (UTC)Re: The poetry of Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-19 01:15 pm (UTC)Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 04:53 pm (UTC)I'm sure there's one or two fanfics where Watson interrupts the "we're all Victorian gentlemen here" confrontation in Baker Street and simply shoots the Professor. (I did one myself (http://archiveofourown.org/works/765499).)
Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 05:03 pm (UTC)So you did:-)
And very well, too:-)
Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-19 05:07 pm (UTC)and love the rhyming brilliance of "Moriarty / Knows right from the start he"
Re: Watson writes on...1
Date: 2015-07-19 05:09 pm (UTC)Re: And a final Final Problem verse...for Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-19 05:12 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-19 05:13 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-19 05:14 pm (UTC)Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-19 05:34 pm (UTC)Proof:-)
And thank you kindly:-)
Re: Watson writes on...1
Date: 2015-07-19 05:35 pm (UTC)Re: And a final Final Problem verse...for Mrs H
Date: 2015-07-19 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-19 05:38 pm (UTC)Haiku
Date: 2015-07-19 05:39 pm (UTC)Inevitable result
The Reichenbach Falls
Re: Haiku
Date: 2015-07-19 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 06:16 pm (UTC)Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 06:27 pm (UTC)Re: An epigram
Date: 2015-07-19 07:02 pm (UTC)Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-20 07:36 am (UTC)Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-20 07:37 am (UTC)Re: A few months on...
Date: 2015-07-20 07:39 am (UTC)Re: Haiku
Date: 2015-07-20 07:40 am (UTC)Re: Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-20 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-20 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: Watson writes on...1
Date: 2015-07-20 05:40 pm (UTC)Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-20 08:37 pm (UTC)Re: Pure speculation regarding Moriarty...
Date: 2015-07-20 08:38 pm (UTC)Re: A few months on...
Date: 2015-07-20 08:39 pm (UTC)Re: Watson writes on...1
Date: 2015-07-20 08:41 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: Coda
Date: 2015-07-21 05:34 am (UTC)