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sherlock60Welcome 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 Tyburn.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
A six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables.
The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.
Poetry Magnum Opus gives further information about the form, and also gives some information on the unconnected Tyburn verse, which is… a thematic genre of poetry named for the infamous Tyburn gallows outside of 16th century London where a multitude of political prisoners as well as other condemned felons were hanged. The poetry exploits the many executions there. The frame of the verse is at the discretion of the poet.
The first four lines should be made up of four 2-syllable, descriptive words. I have kept to two syllables per line but I have otherwise played with that rule a little.
Here is my example poem based on Dr. Watson’s Mrs. Hudson had come in with a card upon a tray. I took it up and glanced at it.:
Entrée
With tray
Sashay
Away
No thanks for my entrée with tray then?
Regally, I sashay away. Men!
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, Parallelismus Membrorum, 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 Three Garridebs 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. 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 Tyburn.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
A six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables.
The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.
Poetry Magnum Opus gives further information about the form, and also gives some information on the unconnected Tyburn verse, which is… a thematic genre of poetry named for the infamous Tyburn gallows outside of 16th century London where a multitude of political prisoners as well as other condemned felons were hanged. The poetry exploits the many executions there. The frame of the verse is at the discretion of the poet.
The first four lines should be made up of four 2-syllable, descriptive words. I have kept to two syllables per line but I have otherwise played with that rule a little.
Here is my example poem based on Dr. Watson’s Mrs. Hudson had come in with a card upon a tray. I took it up and glanced at it.:
With tray
Sashay
Away
No thanks for my entrée with tray then?
Regally, I sashay away. Men!
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, Parallelismus Membrorum, 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 Three Garridebs in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-02-07 08:21 am (UTC)Is told “Want a fortune? Go far!”
There’s a press unconcealed –
But the great heart, revealed,
Shows where our priorities are.
Another of those 'at least it rhymes'
Date: 2016-02-07 12:21 pm (UTC)A fortune, or great wealth
Or not, if this Garrideb
Is really Evans, acting with stealth
Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-02-07 12:23 pm (UTC)More gin?
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-02-07 12:24 pm (UTC)Re: A Tyburn: Priceless.
Date: 2016-02-07 12:25 pm (UTC)attempt tyburn
Date: 2016-02-07 12:26 pm (UTC)recluse
abuse
mis-use
Slain, gutt'd the obtuse recluse mind
When to the world's abuse, mis-use blind
Re: Written earlier: Watson
Date: 2016-02-07 12:27 pm (UTC)Doggerel
Date: 2016-02-07 12:57 pm (UTC)How to use the modern telephone
Reward Holmes’s new tricks
Give the old dog a bone
(I realise I’m on dangerous ground in this comm using that last line (I still remember the “When you’re shooting out a deadbolt with your gun” debacle), but “Dog and bone” is, of course, cockney rhyming slang for “phone”.)
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-02-07 01:01 pm (UTC)Re: A Tyburn: Priceless.
Date: 2016-02-07 01:03 pm (UTC)Re: Written earlier: Watson
Date: 2016-02-07 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: Another of those 'at least it rhymes'
Date: 2016-02-07 01:15 pm (UTC)Re: Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-02-07 01:17 pm (UTC)Re: attempt tyburn
Date: 2016-02-07 01:19 pm (UTC)Re: Another of those 'at least it rhymes' - verse two
Date: 2016-02-07 01:36 pm (UTC)A killer spinning a web
Its silken threads primed
To trap another Garrideb
Re: Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-02-07 01:37 pm (UTC)Re: attempt tyburn
Date: 2016-02-07 01:38 pm (UTC)Re: Doggerel
Date: 2016-02-07 01:44 pm (UTC)Re: Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-02-07 01:51 pm (UTC)Re: Another of those 'at least it rhymes' - verse two
Date: 2016-02-07 01:52 pm (UTC)Re: Doggerel
Date: 2016-02-07 01:56 pm (UTC)You can stick the corks in your ears ^^
Re: Another of those 'at least it rhymes' - verse two
Date: 2016-02-07 01:58 pm (UTC)Re: Doggerel
Date: 2016-02-07 02:14 pm (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-02-07 02:15 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A Tyburn: Priceless.
Date: 2016-02-07 02:15 pm (UTC)