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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.
Epitaph on a Tyrant
By W. H. Auden
Note from Rachel: This is how his people remember the Tiger of San Pedro.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the décima.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
A décima is a ten-line stanza of poetry...
The décima deals with a wide range of subject matter, including themes that are philosophical, religious, lyrical, and political. Humorous décimas typically would satirize an individual's weakness or foolish act...
The décima in all Latin America and in Spain is a style of poetry that is octosyllabic and has 10 lines to the stanza. The rhyming scheme is ABBAACCDDC...
Given the flexible method of counting syllables in Spanish verse, where an "octosyllabic" line could easily have seven or nine syllables (as normally counted), in writing a décima in English it would seem not unreasonable to write in iambic pentameter (theoretically ten syllables), which comes more naturally to English verse.
Here is my example:
Mr. S. Holmes wished to entertain four—
Four inspectors with appetites hearty.
I was dispatched to shop for the party:
I began with meat, fish and cheese galore;
Checked the list, somewhat paled, and bought some more.
Puddings, sweetmeats, cakes—my strength was waning;
I bore it all home with muscles straining.
I arrived though to find an empty space:
Mr. Holmes et al had left on a case.
I don’t call that very entertaining.
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, décima, 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 Adventure of Wisteria Lodge 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 W. H. Auden
Note from Rachel: This is how his people remember the Tiger of San Pedro.
Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the décima.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
A décima is a ten-line stanza of poetry...
The décima deals with a wide range of subject matter, including themes that are philosophical, religious, lyrical, and political. Humorous décimas typically would satirize an individual's weakness or foolish act...
The décima in all Latin America and in Spain is a style of poetry that is octosyllabic and has 10 lines to the stanza. The rhyming scheme is ABBAACCDDC...
Given the flexible method of counting syllables in Spanish verse, where an "octosyllabic" line could easily have seven or nine syllables (as normally counted), in writing a décima in English it would seem not unreasonable to write in iambic pentameter (theoretically ten syllables), which comes more naturally to English verse.
Here is my example:
Four inspectors with appetites hearty.
I was dispatched to shop for the party:
I began with meat, fish and cheese galore;
Checked the list, somewhat paled, and bought some more.
Puddings, sweetmeats, cakes—my strength was waning;
I bore it all home with muscles straining.
I arrived though to find an empty space:
Mr. Holmes et al had left on a case.
I don’t call that very entertaining.
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, décima, 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 Adventure of Wisteria Lodge in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 07:03 am (UTC)Conservative, bachelor, feckless
Spends a night with a friend and the household is gone
And into a maelstrom of bloodshed he’s drawn
RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 07:28 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 06:42 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 11:37 am (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 06:46 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 03:35 pm (UTC)Re: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 06:49 pm (UTC)RE: Clerihew
Date: 2017-05-21 08:49 pm (UTC)Decima
Date: 2017-05-21 08:46 am (UTC)Holding tight my botany book
Trying not to fall in the brook
I am wearing holes in my boots
And am tired of falling o’er roots
My evenings are spent in the bar
The atmosphere’s better by far
I drink down pints of the best beer
And then quite brimful with good cheer
It’s home by the light of a star
Re: Decima
Date: 2017-05-21 11:38 am (UTC)Re: Decima
Date: 2017-05-21 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: Decima
Date: 2017-05-21 03:37 pm (UTC)Re: Decima
Date: 2017-05-21 05:02 pm (UTC)RE: Decima
Date: 2017-05-21 08:50 pm (UTC)Pleased the day ended well:-)
Re: Decima
Date: 2017-05-21 09:05 pm (UTC)decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 11:39 am (UTC)how one so without guile survives?
A perfect upright fool who strives
to rush where angels dare not dwell.
How near were you, yet spared the hell!
A friendship far too fast and close,
a visit strange, a stranger host.
Disturbed in sleep, disturbed awake
a house deserted, horror state.
Of ‘sociable turn,’ sir, do not boast!
Re: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 04:03 pm (UTC)Really nice use of the form - I particularly liked Disturbed in sleep, disturbed awake.
Re: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 05:36 pm (UTC)Thank you. Hard to find simple words for that 1 am wake-up. Not my best work, but tomorrow's another day.
Re: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 05:03 pm (UTC)Re: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 06:57 pm (UTC)Re: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 07:08 pm (UTC)RE: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 08:52 pm (UTC)Re: decima: Mister Scott Eccles
Date: 2017-05-21 09:12 pm (UTC)Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-21 12:23 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-21 04:07 pm (UTC)On Mr. Holmes's return he suggested this meant he need not foot the bill for the food. However I gave him A Look and the matter was satisfactorily settled. On my part anyway.
RE: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-21 08:55 pm (UTC)Re: Mrs. Hudson's poem
Date: 2017-05-21 09:27 pm (UTC)Rachel's poem
Date: 2017-05-21 12:25 pm (UTC)Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 04:10 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 08:56 pm (UTC)Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 05:07 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 08:56 pm (UTC)Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 05:40 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 08:58 pm (UTC)No idea if it has a name as a form, it just helped the flow:-)
Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 06:59 pm (UTC)RE: Re: A Ballad in parts...written earlier
Date: 2017-05-21 08:58 pm (UTC)