sherlock60 | Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Abbey Grange

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 beeswing.

I must admit I was not able to find a form that was suitable for this week’s story and so the beeswing is a tercet of my own invention.

Its definition:

A beeswing has three lines with a rhyme scheme of aaa. Any meter is permitted.

When writing the poem, you take the last word from the first line and the last word from the second line, and incorporate them both into the third line. The words can be exactly the same as they are in lines 1 & 2 or you can make them part of new words. Wordplay is heartily encouraged!

Here is my example poem, using ‘light’ and ‘night’ (and ‘fright’ for the end rhyming word in line 3):

Mr. Holmes, please be careful with candlelight
When you’re playing at ghosts on All Hallow’s night.
Your nightshirt alight gave us all quite a fright.

You do not have to keep closely to the original meaning as I have done. For example: ‘night’ could have become ‘knight’; ‘light’ could have become ‘plight’, ‘blight’ or ‘delight’!

But 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, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, curtal sonnet, 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 Abbey Grange in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!

Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson