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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.
My housemaid is currently still on secondment to Mr. Holmes. As far as I understand it, Rachel is undercover in Bermondsey as ‘Dr. John Wilson’; Dr. Watson is undercover in Brixton as ‘Sherlott Hyams’; and Mr. Holmes is popping back to Baker Street each morning as ‘Raquel’ in order to do the ironing. (I do not pretend to understand. This is why I keep gin in the house.)
Rachel should be back with us next week but until then, here is a new poetry form to try: the tanka.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
Tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry related to the haiku, with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables. (5, 7, 5, 7, 7)
You do not need any more information than that to write your poem but if you follow the ‘tanka’ link above, that will take you to an article by Kathy Lippard Cobb which goes into the form in a little more detail.
In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Mr. Holmes mentions, with regard to the Doctor’s reports, “I made excellent arrangements, and they are only delayed one day upon their way. Naturally I was the one who received the… honour... of assisting Mr. Holmes with posting the reports straight back to Grimpen Post-Office again, and here is my example poem on that very subject:
Arrangements were made
And I sent back to Grimpen
The Doctor’s reports.
Next time trust that first class male:
Mister Holmes, please do take note.
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, musette, 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 Hound of the Baskervilles 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.
My housemaid is currently still on secondment to Mr. Holmes. As far as I understand it, Rachel is undercover in Bermondsey as ‘Dr. John Wilson’; Dr. Watson is undercover in Brixton as ‘Sherlott Hyams’; and Mr. Holmes is popping back to Baker Street each morning as ‘Raquel’ in order to do the ironing. (I do not pretend to understand. This is why I keep gin in the house.)
Rachel should be back with us next week but until then, here is a new poetry form to try: the tanka.
Shadow Poetry gives this definition:
Tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry related to the haiku, with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables. (5, 7, 5, 7, 7)
You do not need any more information than that to write your poem but if you follow the ‘tanka’ link above, that will take you to an article by Kathy Lippard Cobb which goes into the form in a little more detail.
In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Mr. Holmes mentions, with regard to the Doctor’s reports, “I made excellent arrangements, and they are only delayed one day upon their way. Naturally I was the one who received the… honour... of assisting Mr. Holmes with posting the reports straight back to Grimpen Post-Office again, and here is my example poem on that very subject:
And I sent back to Grimpen
The Doctor’s reports.
Next time trust that first class male:
Mister Holmes, please do take note.
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, musette, 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 Hound of the Baskervilles in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 07:06 am (UTC)Whose ghost looms over, still
Is that his figure that shadows the tor
Who revels in murder upon this dark moor?
RE: Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 11:48 am (UTC)Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 12:13 pm (UTC)Thrown down on charging inside
To catch the quarry,
Gives a clue to the latter
His friend unknowingly waits
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 12:14 pm (UTC)RE: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 02:11 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 03:21 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2016-09-18 03:41 pm (UTC)Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 03:45 pm (UTC)Distraction through inquiry
Using the ego's conceit
Sharp questions deflect like shields
Draw the curious away
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 04:13 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 04:17 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2016-09-18 04:19 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 04:23 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 04:47 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 04:51 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 04:57 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 05:26 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2016-09-18 05:31 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 05:33 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: Not a tanka (but does have 31 syllables)
Date: 2016-09-18 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: A chain rhyme (and Drabble) written earlier
Date: 2016-09-18 05:38 pm (UTC)Re: Tanka
Date: 2016-09-18 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: A haiku written earlier
Date: 2016-09-18 05:39 pm (UTC)Re: Not a tanka (but does have 31 syllables)
Date: 2016-09-18 05:41 pm (UTC)