Poetry: The Six Booms of the Bittern: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: The Six Booms of the Bittern
Length: 6
Rating: Gen
Poetic Form: 221B Verselet
For: scfrankles, the inventor of the form.

hic jacet
heir hound
hall
Baskerville

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Very clever!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I was looking for a synonym for something and discovered the first phrase in Latin and it went from there.

[scfrankles]

I love that title ^____^

Thank you so much for this ^___^ It's so elegantly done.

The use of Latin for the epitaph seems so appropriate (I had to look up what "hic jacet" means I must admit ^^"). Ancient, scientific, formal and dispassionately detached. But the repetition of the h feels a little like panting and fear. And heir hound feels like it has a double meaning - could be the actual hound or Stapleton himself? And you make that final "Baskerville" seem so sinister ^^"

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

You're very welcome. I was looking for a synonym for something and came across hic jacet and I thought it made a nice compliment to the h's of the others. Very true on the double meaning of heir, Henry is the heir and Stapleton wants to be it, and that's the core of the plot. And definitely. Was there ever a more sinister word than Baskerville??!!

[debriswoman]

Very neat...had to look up the first line...has very sinister overtones.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! It wasn't a phrase known to me, either, but I came across it in a thesaurus while looking for a synonym for something else and I thought it would make a nice 'h' to go with the others.