Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Problem of Thor Bridge

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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 triangular triplet.

www.answers.com gives this definition:

A triangular triplet is a triplet, meaning it has to have 3 lines that rhyme. The catch is it has to make sense reading the lines in any order.

You should strictly speaking place the three lines together in the form of a triangle, but that is rather beyond the capabilities of my typewriter and would be difficult to accomplish in the comments. So stacking the lines one upon another in the usual manner is perfectly acceptable.



Here is my example poem, dedicated to my late, lamented pet:


My small terrier is on guard
Can you count four feet? (it’s not hard)
Out there in a Baker Street yard



And here are the other ways of reading it:

My small terrier is on guard
Out there in a Baker Street yard
Can you count four feet? (it’s not hard)

Can you count four feet? (it’s not hard)
My small terrier is on guard
Out there in a Baker Street yard

Can you count four feet? (it’s not hard)
Out there in a Baker Street yard
My small terrier is on guard

Out there in a Baker Street yard
My small terrier is on guard
Can you count four feet? (it’s not hard)

Out there in a Baker Street yard
Can you count four feet? (it’s not hard)
My small terrier is on guard



I am hoping you might be able to find a few plays on words—the number of feet in each line (and on a dog), the fact that ‘yard’ has more than one meaning, and the fact that in a baker’s dozen there is always one more than usual...



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, elfje, 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, triangular triplet, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Problem of Thor Bridge in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson