sherlock60 | Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Three Students

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

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From:

scfrankles.livejournal.com

A key in the door and temptation prevailed.
He saw the proofs and temptation prevailed.
Gilchrist’s morals were tested, and the boy failed.

thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com

Desperation I suppose - one last ditch attempt to remain at the university.

I'm not sure I see it as desperation exactly - or one last attempt. I think it's simply he was always worried about having enough money to continue his studies and he'd put a lot of hope into winning the scholarship. He wasn't truly poor, of course - but having to worry about money all the time skewed his moral sense. Just at that moment the money seemed more important than keeping to his ideals.