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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 pantoum.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
The pantoum… is composed of a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern continues for any number of stanzas, except for the final stanza, which differs in the repeating pattern. The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final.
Ideally, the meaning of lines shifts when they are repeated although the words remain exactly the same: this can be done by shifting punctuation, punning, or simply recontextualizing.
I believe a rhyming scheme of ABAB can be used, or rhyming can be omitted altogether. As this is a poem in which lines are repeated as the poem moves forward, I thought it was an apt form for a story in which the past stays with and affects the present.
My example poem:
I miss my former lodgers,
Their behaviour was always regular.
No danger, mess or smoke.
I could rely upon them.
Their behaviour always regular—
Mr. Holmes and the Doctor?
Well, I can rely upon them
For constant chaos and commotion.
Mr. Holmes and the Doctor:
I will make them both take notice
Of the constant chaos and commotion.
They can take their adventures elsewhere.
I have given them both notice,
No more danger, mess or smoke.
They have taken their adventures elsewhere and...
I miss my former lodgers.
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, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, pantoum, renga, riddle, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Dancing Men 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 pantoum.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
The pantoum… is composed of a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern continues for any number of stanzas, except for the final stanza, which differs in the repeating pattern. The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final.
Ideally, the meaning of lines shifts when they are repeated although the words remain exactly the same: this can be done by shifting punctuation, punning, or simply recontextualizing.
I believe a rhyming scheme of ABAB can be used, or rhyming can be omitted altogether. As this is a poem in which lines are repeated as the poem moves forward, I thought it was an apt form for a story in which the past stays with and affects the present.
My example poem:
Their behaviour was always regular.
No danger, mess or smoke.
I could rely upon them.
Their behaviour always regular—
Mr. Holmes and the Doctor?
Well, I can rely upon them
For constant chaos and commotion.
Mr. Holmes and the Doctor:
I will make them both take notice
Of the constant chaos and commotion.
They can take their adventures elsewhere.
I have given them both notice,
No more danger, mess or smoke.
They have taken their adventures elsewhere and...
I miss my former lodgers.
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, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, pantoum, renga, riddle, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Dancing Men in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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A limerick
Date: 2015-08-23 07:29 am (UTC)...he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird…
Dr. Watson can be rather absurd
In his search for the appropriate word
At least Lestrade merits
Being compared with sweet ferrets
Poor Sherlock Holmes gets the bird
Re: A limerick
Date: 2015-08-23 07:32 am (UTC)Limerick: AM HERE
Date: 2015-08-23 07:33 am (UTC)A shot, after one mighty blast.
Absurd, simple men
Dance their message again:
“We’ve caught up with Elsie at last.”
Watson is not happy
Date: 2015-08-23 01:27 pm (UTC)I am telling you quite clearly, Holmes
This message is not conveyed in code
If your malodorous product has not gone by nightfall
I shall probably explode!
Re: A limerick
Date: 2015-08-23 03:47 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: AM HERE
Date: 2015-08-23 03:48 pm (UTC)Re: Dancing men...a rondeau
Date: 2015-08-23 03:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-23 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: A limerick
Date: 2015-08-23 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: AM HERE
Date: 2015-08-23 05:06 pm (UTC)Re: Dancing men...a rondeau
Date: 2015-08-23 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-23 05:11 pm (UTC)Re: Watson is not happy
Date: 2015-08-23 05:12 pm (UTC)Re: Watson is not happy
Date: 2015-08-23 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: Dancing men...a rondeau
Date: 2015-08-23 05:29 pm (UTC)Re: Watson is not happy
Date: 2015-08-23 05:31 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing this very believable note.
RE: Re: Dancing men...a rondeau
Date: 2015-08-23 05:46 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Dancing men...a rondeau
Date: 2015-08-23 05:47 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Dancing men...a rondeau
Date: 2015-08-23 05:48 pm (UTC)Re: A limerick
Date: 2015-08-23 05:48 pm (UTC)RE: Watson is not happy
Date: 2015-08-23 05:49 pm (UTC)RE: A limerick
Date: 2015-08-23 05:50 pm (UTC)RE: Limerick: AM HERE
Date: 2015-08-23 05:51 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick: AM HERE
Date: 2015-08-23 05:51 pm (UTC)Re: A limerick
Date: 2015-08-23 05:52 pm (UTC)