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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.
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.
The Laboratory
By Robert Browning
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: the quatern.
Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest gives this definition:
This poem has 16 lines broken up into 4 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas).
Each line is comprised of eight syllables.
The first line is the refrain. In the second stanza, the refrain appears in the second line; in the third stanza, the third line; in the fourth stanza, the fourth (and final) line.
There are no rules for rhyming or iambics.
Here is my example:
“Cut out the poetry, Doctor,”
Demands a severe Mr. Holmes.
It is facts that are important.
Fine words are not necessary.
Yes, it is quite right that you should
Cut out the poetry, Doctor.
Do not walk in beautiful woods
Giving time to birds and flowers.
Others may philosophise on
Roses and goodness but you have
Cut out the poetry, Doctor.
You will have no truck with extras.
Though… you are no common writer.
The metaphor: someone called you
His Boswell. Perhaps you should not
Cut out the poetry, Doctor?
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, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Retired Colourman 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.
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.
By Robert Browning
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: the quatern.
Robert Lee Brewer on Writer’s Digest gives this definition:
This poem has 16 lines broken up into 4 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas).
Each line is comprised of eight syllables.
The first line is the refrain. In the second stanza, the refrain appears in the second line; in the third stanza, the third line; in the fourth stanza, the fourth (and final) line.
There are no rules for rhyming or iambics.
Here is my example:
Demands a severe Mr. Holmes.
It is facts that are important.
Fine words are not necessary.
Yes, it is quite right that you should
Cut out the poetry, Doctor.
Do not walk in beautiful woods
Giving time to birds and flowers.
Others may philosophise on
Roses and goodness but you have
Cut out the poetry, Doctor.
You will have no truck with extras.
Though… you are no common writer.
The metaphor: someone called you
His Boswell. Perhaps you should not
Cut out the poetry, Doctor?
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, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Retired Colourman in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 07:18 am (UTC)Jealous and stingy, unmannerly
Suspected his wife and friend, sealed their fate –
One last square, bolt the door, turn the gas and checkmate
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 11:59 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 04:09 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 12:09 pm (UTC)And that last line put a shiver down my spine ^^"
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 04:11 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 12:13 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 04:12 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 04:43 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-07 07:20 pm (UTC)quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 12:00 pm (UTC)say I. “Your metaphors distract.
The wall was high and brick, intact.
Proceed with naught but cold, plain fact.”
“So elegant the ostrich plume—“
“Cut out the poetry, Watson!
The lady’s hatpin, I presume,
is innocent, so’s her perfume.”
“The sunset’s colours matter not,
be they lemon curd or apricot!
Cut out the poetry, Watson!
Does light suffice to make the shot?”
“Close doors, free words, let tongues have sway,
compare me to a summer’s day,
for here, my love, I’ll never say,
‘Cut out the poetry, Watson.’"
Re: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 12:15 pm (UTC)Re: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 12:21 pm (UTC)Re: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 12:57 pm (UTC)I love "The lady’s hatpin, I presume,/ is innocent, so’s her perfume” and “The sunset’s colours matter not,/ be they lemon curd or apricot!" And I love your use of rhyme too.
And it is rather touching that Holmes can sometimes appreciate a bit of poetry and romance ^___^
Re: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 12:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, I liked the jam colours, too. And Watson's description of ladies clothing is always good for a bit of teasing.
Of course, he can. He's just be ornery. And impatient when the game's afoot!
Re: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 04:14 pm (UTC)And Holmes is such a hypocrite, as the above sample proves - "We're terrified a missing treaty will mean war and you're babbling about flowers!"
Re: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 04:16 pm (UTC)RE: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 04:45 pm (UTC)Re: quatern (the hive mind is buzzing!)
Date: 2017-05-07 06:07 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-07 12:04 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-07 12:59 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-07 01:00 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-07 04:47 pm (UTC)Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-05-07 12:05 pm (UTC)Re: Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-05-08 02:36 am (UTC)Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 12:16 pm (UTC)In the middle of weary streets
A haven from monotony
Back from suburban brick highways
An old home all surrounded
An island of ancient culture
A sun-baked wall, topped by thick moss
And mottled with many lichen
A misshaped demon is ruler
Like a horrible bird of prey
An island of ancient culture
No mythical beast is found here
Follow the gas pipes for the source
And search the well for the bodies
The age old tale of jealousy
An island of ancient culture
Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 12:20 pm (UTC)Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 01:06 pm (UTC)Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 01:02 pm (UTC)http://didyouknowblog.com/post/156024361054/you-can-go-church-camping-in-englands-abandoned
Camping in abandoned English churches. For fun! It made me think of you and your church work. I think it could be a fic, too. Something goes awry.
Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 01:11 pm (UTC)Next time I'm bored at a PCC meeting maybe I'll suggest they do it, just for the laugh ;)
Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 01:08 pm (UTC)And I love how you connect up Watson's words with Holmes's viewpoint at the end.
Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 04:17 pm (UTC)The poetry form also, physically, drags us down with that repeating line - down into Amberley's madness, down into the well.
Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 05:03 pm (UTC)It does - a recurring theme, like the thoughts through Amberley's head.
RE: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 04:48 pm (UTC)Re: Quatern
Date: 2017-05-07 05:04 pm (UTC)Yes, one who would benefit from the poetic description.
Re: Quatern: two artists
Date: 2017-05-07 05:06 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Quatern: two artists
Date: 2017-05-07 05:32 pm (UTC)Re: Quatern: two artists
Date: 2017-05-07 05:21 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Quatern: two artists
Date: 2017-05-07 05:33 pm (UTC)Re: Quatern: two artists
Date: 2017-05-07 07:54 pm (UTC)And comparing Mrs. Amberley's peaceful unawareness beforehand with Amberley's calm covering up of the evidence afterwards is so poignant and so chilling.
RE: Re: Quatern: two artists
Date: 2017-05-07 08:33 pm (UTC)Seemed reasonable she might paint.