sherlock60 | Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chaps. 13-15

Welcome 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.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.

He Made His Terror

by Dean P. Jeffress

Note from Rachel: This poem evokes Stapleton and his last attempt to murder Sir Henry on the dark, clouded, and moonlit road before he fled to his own death.

Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: kennings poem. (The link takes you back to a previous poetry page.)

But you do not have to use that form. 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

Rodger “Stapleton” Baskerville
Of brutal, ambitious will
Pinned butterflies and battered his wife
Till the Mire netted him and pulled down his life

Nice parallel between his 'hobbies' and his end. I like that the mire 'netted' him.

If he wasn't attacked by the hound, this was probably the fate he deserved.

I like the linking of brutality in all aspects of his life.

That is a neat parallel between the butterflies and his wife - Stapleton sees beauty as something for him to possess and do with as he will. And it's a great last line.

scheme-steeper
mire-tuft-leaper
upon-cycliopedes-creeper
make-sister-wife-weep-er
secret-hound-keeper
seeds-sown-reaper

Very well chosen words and pattern:-)
I particularly like mire-tuft-leaper:-)

Excellently done. I know I keep saying it but you're such a natural poet - your choice of words here are so elegant and interesting. I particularly liked 'upon-cycliopedes-creeper' and 'seeds-sown-reaper.'

Very nice. And I second the atmospheric comment.

Really like 'sleep-tearing' - such an unusual phrase. And I like the rhyme pattern too.

Very good indeed. A most satisfactory rhythm, and the last word does us so well.

This is lovely - and turns everything round (makes sense for a rondeaux)

Hurrah for the bloodhound and a happy ending! ^_^ A tense and dramatic piece ^^"

Hound starver
Wife beater
Callous killer
Woman deceiver
Meticulous schemer
Lean-jawed pike

Breeches for breech-loaders.
Hip-holsters for gendarmes.
Straight-tubes for revolvers.
Leg-coverings for arms.

I can't work out whether you should be applauded or shot for the last line.

Clerihew

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kennings poem

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Re: Not quite a kennings

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Re: Written earlier...snow bound...two rondeaux

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Re: Written earlier...Moor disturbance...(a bit fluffy)

Re: Written earlier...hounded

Kennings poem

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A (kind-of) kennings poem: a hymn of praise to Lestrade’s trousers and the contents thereof.

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