sherlock60 | Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chaps. 1-7

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 found poetry.

Wikipedia gives this definition:

Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original.

Here is my example poem. All words and phrases have been taken from the first chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles:

My

silver-plated coffee-pot

has

escaped me.

I

looked

down

his favourite corner of the settee.

The probability lies in that direction.

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, found poetry, 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 Hound of the Baskervilles in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!

Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson