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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.
King Lear, Edmund's monologue "Thou, nature, art my goddess"
By William Shakespeare
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the barzelletta.
Lawrence Eberhart on Poets Collective gives this definition (for the ‘couplet’ barzelletta):
...Often composed as a joke with moral instruction there is also evidence of serious love poems linked to the Barzelletta...
• The “couplet” Barzelletta is:
○ lyrical.
○ stanzaic, written in any number of couplets.
○ metered, often iambic, line length optional although originally octosyllabic.
○ often written employing internal rhyme, end words are usually unrhymed.
○ written with wit and a didactic (instructional) and/or aphor[ist]ic (concise statement of scientific principle) tone.
As a reminder, if you wanted to use an iambic, octosyllabic line, that would be: te TUM, te TUM, te TUM, te TUM.
Here is my example:
A violin from dusk to dawn
Hold up your chin, and show your pluck
Not all can win sweet victory
With each gin there comes the tonic
Here floating in comes more flotsam
Please use the bin and not the floor
Though there’s a skin you’re left to clean
You have to grin and… bear it all.
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, barzelletta, 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 Priory School 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 William Shakespeare
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the barzelletta.
Lawrence Eberhart on Poets Collective gives this definition (for the ‘couplet’ barzelletta):
...Often composed as a joke with moral instruction there is also evidence of serious love poems linked to the Barzelletta...
• The “couplet” Barzelletta is:
○ lyrical.
○ stanzaic, written in any number of couplets.
○ metered, often iambic, line length optional although originally octosyllabic.
○ often written employing internal rhyme, end words are usually unrhymed.
○ written with wit and a didactic (instructional) and/or aphor[ist]ic (concise statement of scientific principle) tone.
As a reminder, if you wanted to use an iambic, octosyllabic line, that would be: te TUM, te TUM, te TUM, te TUM.
Here is my example:
Hold up your chin, and show your pluck
Not all can win sweet victory
With each gin there comes the tonic
Here floating in comes more flotsam
Please use the bin and not the floor
Though there’s a skin you’re left to clean
You have to grin and… bear it all.
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, barzelletta, 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 Priory School in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 07:42 am (UTC)Stole his half-brother, Saltire the child heir,
And helped murder a teacher. But they will be lenient
Because he repented his part. How convenient.
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 01:24 pm (UTC)And I love 'James Wilder/child heir' - very neat ^^
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 03:13 pm (UTC)Poor little Lord Saltire doesn't even appear in this story - he's the McGuffin that triggers the case.
I was pretty chuffed at coming up with 'child heir' as a rhyme for 'Wilder' myself.
Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 02:43 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 03:17 pm (UTC)get chloroformed and thrownfall overboard all the timeRe: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 02:48 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 03:19 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 06:12 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-14 11:48 pm (UTC)Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 02:42 pm (UTC)With stubbled chin and grimy shirt
There’s a man upon the hearthrug
Who sorrows tug and worries pull
A story of events most dire
For Lord Saltire is no longer there
A story of events begun
The missing son of Holdernesse
A tale of a brother betrayed
Of villains paid to take a boy
A tale of a brother sailing
A father failing to take care
Re: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 02:49 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 02:54 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 04:05 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 05:10 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 05:11 pm (UTC)RE: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 06:13 pm (UTC)And cleverly rhymed:-)
Re: Barzellatta
Date: 2017-05-14 06:16 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-14 02:47 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-14 05:08 pm (UTC)At least Job never had to clean a bearskin rug belonging to Sherlock Holmes on a regular basis...
Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-14 05:12 pm (UTC)RE: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-14 06:14 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-14 06:24 pm (UTC)Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 02:55 pm (UTC)nerve-worn, insensible of state,
did swagger, slip, then fall prostrate
upon the rug of 221B.
His card, his pate bowed with the weight
of titles and distinctions grand
and scandal foul, hand cruel of Fate.
The master could no longer stand
when frayed, not staid, his puppet’s band.
Alarmed, but not surprised were we
at Doctor T. Huxtable III,
nerve-worn, insensible of state.
Was not he first to oscillate
and crumble. Supping on The Strand
and drinking, late, with Boswell mate,
did lead to matters well in hand.
And one of us became unmanned.
And pitched and tumbled just as T.
Upon the rug of 221B
did swagger, slip, then fall prostrate.
Re: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 04:08 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 04:28 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 05:14 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 05:36 pm (UTC)Re: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 06:00 pm (UTC)But you've used the form to perfection. The second half of the poem made me laugh so much ^__^
Re: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 06:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, I love that bearskin rug. It's definitely in my AU seen quite a few men 'overcome'
RE: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 06:15 pm (UTC)Thoroughly impressed.
Re: Barzellatta (the second form)
Date: 2017-05-14 06:45 pm (UTC)Oh, and you may (or may not) appreciate Inky's latest adventure: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6848800/chapters/24232371
The chapter preceding that one is his Mother's Day sonnet based on Hobbit's photos of the flowers in her garden.