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[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] sherlock60
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

Limerick

Date: 2015-10-04 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com
Three students – but one took a peek
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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Date: 2015-10-04 11:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Your limerick summaries continue to impress.

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Date: 2015-10-04 05:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] debriswoman
All the main points made beautifully:-)

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Re: A Blues Stanza

Date: 2015-10-04 11:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Desperation I suppose - one last ditch attempt to remain at the university.

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Date: 2015-10-04 12:01 pm (UTC)
ext_1789368: okapi (Default)
From: [identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com
I like the use of temptation here. Very bluesy. Making a deal with the devil and losing.

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Date: 2015-10-04 05:27 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Sums it up very well:-)
Not just knowledge of Greek being tested...

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Date: 2015-10-04 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com
Well thought and well written.
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Re: Gilchrist sings the blues.

Date: 2015-10-04 11:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Here's hoping Bannister's example will remain with him from now on.

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Date: 2015-10-04 04:36 pm (UTC)
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I'll go down to Rhodesia, that's the place I ought to be.
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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Date: 2015-10-04 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurose8.livejournal.com
Bravo! What a fine alternate rendering.

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Point and Counter-point

Date: 2015-10-04 11:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
Not one of your cases
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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Date: 2015-10-04 05:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com
I like the back and forth of this. Arguing like an old...well, you know.

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Your poem, Mrs H

Date: 2015-10-04 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com
You have the patience of a saint, Mrs H. A little more gin, perhaps?

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the landlady blues

Date: 2015-10-04 11:59 am (UTC)
ext_1789368: okapi (Default)
From: [identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com
Peas at half seven, sir, you been told,
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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exiled detective's blues

Date: 2015-10-04 04:07 pm (UTC)
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My chemicals, my scrapbooks, gone, gone, far away,
My armchair, my papers, gone, gone, far away,
Exiled amidst ivory towers, and here I must stay.

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