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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 the blues stanza. It is a kind of tercet.
The Poets Garret gives this definition:
The Blues stanza is poetry derived in the late 19th century from the Afro-American lamentation and sadness; it can however be sarcastic and ironic.
Its basic structure is with line 2 repeating the rhyme similar to line 1, and line 3 rhyming with the previous two, bringing the stanza to a climax. There is no set length.
The Rhyme scheme is thus: A. A. a. . B. B. b. . C. C. c. etc.
Here is my example poem. It is dedicated to my tenant, Mr. Holmes:
You’re my bread and butter but please grant my wish.
You’re my bread and butter but won’t you grant my wish?
Won’t you take your d___ chemicals... out of my butter-dish.
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, blues stanza, call and response, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, englyn, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, pantoum, poem cycle, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Three Students 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 blues stanza. It is a kind of tercet.
The Poets Garret gives this definition:
The Blues stanza is poetry derived in the late 19th century from the Afro-American lamentation and sadness; it can however be sarcastic and ironic.
Its basic structure is with line 2 repeating the rhyme similar to line 1, and line 3 rhyming with the previous two, bringing the stanza to a climax. There is no set length.
The Rhyme scheme is thus: A. A. a. . B. B. b. . C. C. c. etc.
Here is my example poem. It is dedicated to my tenant, Mr. Holmes:
You’re my bread and butter but won’t you grant my wish?
Won’t you take your d___ chemicals... out of my butter-dish.
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, blues stanza, call and response, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, englyn, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, palindrome poetry, pantoum, poem cycle, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Three Students in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
Limerick
Date: 2015-10-04 07:21 am (UTC)At an exercise written in Greek.
“Calm yourself, Mr. Soames.
This black track-clay,” said Holmes,
“Proves it’s Gilchrist the athlete you seek!”
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From:A Blues Stanza
Date: 2015-10-04 07:22 am (UTC)He saw the proofs and temptation prevailed.
Gilchrist’s morals were tested, and the boy failed.
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Date: 2015-10-04 05:27 pm (UTC)Not just knowledge of Greek being tested...
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Date: 2015-10-04 04:36 pm (UTC)Yes I'm going to Rhodesia, that's the place I ought to be.
...Abusing other people, whose skins are blacker far than me.
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From:Point and Counter-point
Date: 2015-10-04 11:46 am (UTC)It requires the brain
Well, come if you must
If you can’t refrain
I wasn’t the one
Who destroyed 221B
So, since it was your fault
You can put up with me
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From:Your poem, Mrs H
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From:the landlady blues
Date: 2015-10-04 11:59 am (UTC)That’s when your vittles be ready, sir, you been told,
Stroll in here at nine, sir, your peas, they be cold.
Stomp out that cheroot, sir, you been told,
Clean up your own soot, sir, you been told,
Or you and Mr. Fancypants’ll find your rooms, they been sold.
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From:exiled detective's blues
Date: 2015-10-04 04:07 pm (UTC)My armchair, my papers, gone, gone, far away,
Exiled amidst ivory towers, and here I must stay.
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