Admin Post: The Poetry Page: Social Distancing with Mrs. Hudson

[scfrankles]

The vaccination rate is increasing, and so perhaps our little household can risk getting a little closer for this month’s activity. Yes, to quote Mr. Gilbert, “let us gaily tread the measure!” Cut a rug! Trip the light fantastic!

In other words, dance!

(No! Not yet, Mrs. Frankles! Interesting moves though, dear...)

Now, before I crank up the gramophone, let me run through a few possible dances that you might like to try.


There is:

the waltz

the mazurka

the polka

and finally

the galop.



And as added artistic inspiration here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s story, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”:


“Holmes!” I cried—“Holmes!” “Come out,” said he, “and please be careful with the revolver.” I stooped under the rude lintel, and there he sat upon a stone outside, his gray eyes dancing with amusement as they fell upon my astonished features.



Here as usual is the 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


And so, let me set the needle upon the record, and let us begin the first dance!

Comments

Re: triolet

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!