Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: His Last Bow
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sherlock60And so I am back from my celebrations—Happy New Year and 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. (Though the story this week may not have been written by the doctor...) 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 elegiac stanza.
The Encylopaedia Britannica gives this definition:
Elegaic stanza: in poetry, a quatrain in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming. Though the older and more general term for this is heroic stanza, the form became associated specifically with elegiac poetry when Thomas Gray used it to perfection in “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751).
That is, it is a four line verse with the rhyme scheme abab.
Iambic pentameter is: te TUM te TUM te TUM te TUM te TUM
Here is my example poem:
An ending: and three agents join the fight.
Brave Martha? No, the lady isn’t me.
But reading, watching old friends reunite…
I think I would quite like it to be.
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, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, palindrome poetry, pantoum, poem cycle, quintilla, 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 His Last Bow 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. (Though the story this week may not have been written by the doctor...) 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 elegiac stanza.
The Encylopaedia Britannica gives this definition:
Elegaic stanza: in poetry, a quatrain in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming. Though the older and more general term for this is heroic stanza, the form became associated specifically with elegiac poetry when Thomas Gray used it to perfection in “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751).
That is, it is a four line verse with the rhyme scheme abab.
Iambic pentameter is: te TUM te TUM te TUM te TUM te TUM
Here is my example poem:
Brave Martha? No, the lady isn’t me.
But reading, watching old friends reunite…
I think I would quite like it to be.
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, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, palindrome poetry, pantoum, poem cycle, quintilla, 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 His Last Bow in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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