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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 go on 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.
Rachel is still away fighting crime (I have received a telephone call. She mentioned being “slightly” kidnapped and having to escape from a first floor window. I do not think I have ever heard her so cheerful) and so here instead is this week’s new poetry form to try.
In tribute to my housemaid, and to Miss Ettie Shafter, my featured form is the florette.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
The Florette, created by Jan Turner, consists of two or more 4-line stanzas.
Rhyme scheme: a,a,b,a
Meter: 8,8,8,12 [syllables per line]
Fourth line requirement of internal (b) rhyme scheme, on syllable 8.
Like the outgrowing of a small flower, the fourth line of each stanza is longer, and enwraps the previous lines.
So, putting that into the form of a diagram:
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x b
x x x x x x x b x x x a
Here is my example poem (consisting of just one stanza):
A detective in need of aid
Has turned to my esteemed housemaid.
Who will operate my mangle?
My bloomers are in a tangle, I am afraid.
But you do not have to use this form, if you do not wish to. 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, ballad, 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, Fib, florette, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, 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 Valley of Fear 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 go on 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.
Rachel is still away fighting crime (I have received a telephone call. She mentioned being “slightly” kidnapped and having to escape from a first floor window. I do not think I have ever heard her so cheerful) and so here instead is this week’s new poetry form to try.
In tribute to my housemaid, and to Miss Ettie Shafter, my featured form is the florette.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
The Florette, created by Jan Turner, consists of two or more 4-line stanzas.
Rhyme scheme: a,a,b,a
Meter: 8,8,8,12 [syllables per line]
Fourth line requirement of internal (b) rhyme scheme, on syllable 8.
Like the outgrowing of a small flower, the fourth line of each stanza is longer, and enwraps the previous lines.
So, putting that into the form of a diagram:
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x b
x x x x x x x b x x x a
Here is my example poem (consisting of just one stanza):
Has turned to my esteemed housemaid.
Who will operate my mangle?
My bloomers are in a tangle, I am afraid.
But you do not have to use this form, if you do not wish to. 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, ballad, 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, Fib, florette, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, 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 Valley of Fear in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-06-26 07:20 am (UTC)His fierce reputation to sell.
He causes alarm –
But their brand on his arm
Sets the Scowrers at ease. All is well.
A florette
Date: 2016-06-26 11:26 am (UTC)And now to tie up each loose end
Another story has been penned
A train goes down into a hell
A young man travelling to dwell with fiendish friends.
Enter Ettie, dark-eyed and pale.
Unforeseen angel of the vale
Rare as a violet by a mine
(They’re common--Violets divine--though, in Doyle’s tales.)
Florette
Date: 2016-06-26 11:44 am (UTC)It seems about another day
Of people who we’ve never heard
Not those whose stories we preferr’d within the fray
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-26 11:45 am (UTC)Re: A florette
Date: 2016-06-26 11:47 am (UTC)Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-06-26 11:48 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-26 12:18 pm (UTC)Re: A florette
Date: 2016-06-26 12:19 pm (UTC)Re: Florette
Date: 2016-06-26 12:23 pm (UTC)Re: Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-06-26 12:23 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Florette
Date: 2016-06-26 12:27 pm (UTC)florette
Date: 2016-06-26 12:39 pm (UTC)a-bloom a beauty ‘midst dark mountains steep
Where greed and hate are buried fathoms deep
And those who blood-seeds sow must also reap ‘cross sea and years.
Fair eyes amused and shining soon shall weep
For all the pretty words that fail to keep
The wolves at bay, the hoary beasts asleep.
Ere long, the tainted vein shall creep, and shed its tears.
Re: florette
Date: 2016-06-26 12:58 pm (UTC)Beautiful and disturbing - in particular, And those who blood-seeds sow must also reap ‘cross sea and years stood out for me.
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-26 02:34 pm (UTC)Re: A florette
Date: 2016-06-26 02:34 pm (UTC)Re: A florette
Date: 2016-06-26 02:36 pm (UTC)Re: Florette
Date: 2016-06-26 02:37 pm (UTC)Re: Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-06-26 02:37 pm (UTC)Re: florette
Date: 2016-06-26 02:38 pm (UTC)Re: A florette
Date: 2016-06-26 02:53 pm (UTC)Re: A florette
Date: 2016-06-26 03:22 pm (UTC)Re: florette
Date: 2016-06-26 03:23 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-26 03:26 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-26 03:29 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-06-26 03:29 pm (UTC)