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holmes_minorHello everyone and welcome once again to my poetry page!
Now, this time we are combining our trip out with something a little more personal. You see, despite having to use reading glasses in more and more circumstances, and having to keep whipping glasses out at work to read any small print, I believe Mrs. Frankles is still putting off actually consulting an optician. Thus, I think it is time to stage an… “intervention”.
We will be accompanying Mrs. Frankles to an optician’s in Regent Street, where a Mr. Luby will use a selection of lenses to find the correct prescription for her. The establishment also has a selection of frames—perhaps Mrs. Frankles would like something simple but stylish like this?
We may have to wait for some little time while Mrs. Frankles’ eyes are being examined, so here is some reading material to take with us:
A brief overview of opticians in the 19th century
A look at the contemporary attitude to spectacles
Our eyes, and how to preserve them from infancy to old age by John Browning
And to add to that, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story “The Golden Pince-Nez”:
“By George, it's marvellous!” cried Hopkins, in an ecstasy of admiration. “To think that I had all that evidence in my hand and never knew it! I had intended, however, to go the round of the London opticians.”
Of course, while we are waiting, that would also be the perfect time to begin composing a poem. Here is the usual list of poetry forms:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, 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, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith
So off we all go! (Yes, I assure you, we are going, Mrs. Frankles. Don’t make me get out the broom.)
Now, this time we are combining our trip out with something a little more personal. You see, despite having to use reading glasses in more and more circumstances, and having to keep whipping glasses out at work to read any small print, I believe Mrs. Frankles is still putting off actually consulting an optician. Thus, I think it is time to stage an… “intervention”.
We will be accompanying Mrs. Frankles to an optician’s in Regent Street, where a Mr. Luby will use a selection of lenses to find the correct prescription for her. The establishment also has a selection of frames—perhaps Mrs. Frankles would like something simple but stylish like this?
We may have to wait for some little time while Mrs. Frankles’ eyes are being examined, so here is some reading material to take with us:
A brief overview of opticians in the 19th century
A look at the contemporary attitude to spectacles
Our eyes, and how to preserve them from infancy to old age by John Browning
And to add to that, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story “The Golden Pince-Nez”:
“By George, it's marvellous!” cried Hopkins, in an ecstasy of admiration. “To think that I had all that evidence in my hand and never knew it! I had intended, however, to go the round of the London opticians.”
Of course, while we are waiting, that would also be the perfect time to begin composing a poem. Here is the usual list of poetry forms:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, 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, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith
So off we all go! (Yes, I assure you, we are going, Mrs. Frankles. Don’t make me get out the broom.)
