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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.
Mr. Holmes has popped by briefly to tell me the case is now in the latter stages and Rachel should be resuming her duties at Baker Street very soon. Excellent news—but I have of course coped perfectly well without her. And certainly did not forget myself so far as to embrace Mr. Holmes and weep on his shoulder.
So, in the meantime, here is another featured form to try: the In Memoriam stanza.
Encyclopaedia Britannica gives this definition:
...a quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba. The form was named for the pattern used by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem In Memoriam...
Here is my example poem:
My kitchen’s state is now a sin,
Since Rachel went to combat crime.
Please save me from my life of grime!
Return, dear maid! And bring the gin!
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, In Memoriam stanza, 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.
Mr. Holmes has popped by briefly to tell me the case is now in the latter stages and Rachel should be resuming her duties at Baker Street very soon. Excellent news—but I have of course coped perfectly well without her. And certainly did not forget myself so far as to embrace Mr. Holmes and weep on his shoulder.
So, in the meantime, here is another featured form to try: the In Memoriam stanza.
Encyclopaedia Britannica gives this definition:
...a quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba. The form was named for the pattern used by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem In Memoriam...
Here is my example poem:
Since Rachel went to combat crime.
Please save me from my life of grime!
Return, dear maid! And bring the gin!
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, In Memoriam stanza, 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: 2016-07-03 07:48 am (UTC)Sends the Scowrers to scaffold or jail.
Douglas now in this land,
He escapes as he planned –
But dear me, Mr. Holmes, still you fail!
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-07-03 11:31 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
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Date: 2016-07-04 06:02 am (UTC)An In Memoriam stanza
Date: 2016-07-03 09:57 am (UTC)Farewell to Douglas, lost at sea
Survived the Scowrers but still died
A master villain has his pride
A victim falls to deviltry
Re: An In Memoriam stanza
Date: 2016-07-03 05:49 pm (UTC)Re: An In Memoriam stanza
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Date: 2016-07-03 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-03 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-03 01:35 pm (UTC)In Memoriam stanza
Date: 2016-07-03 12:52 pm (UTC)A life of daring swept away.
A story’s pawn denied a stay.
A villain's hand ensures his end.
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Date: 2016-07-03 08:25 pm (UTC)In Memoriam Stanza
Date: 2016-07-03 03:35 pm (UTC)To Sherlock Holmes who starts to think
Of ways to meet him at the brink
And thus begins the final game
Re: In Memoriam Stanza
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Date: 2016-07-03 09:06 pm (UTC)Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-07-03 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: Your poem, Mrs H
Date: 2016-07-03 08:51 pm (UTC)But I will be glad to have her back in any case.