The Poetry Page: On The Bummel with Mrs. Hudson

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Welcome all!

I have most exciting news! With the assistance of Mr. Holmes and his many contacts, today we are going to be attending the Duchess of Devonshire’s costume ball—the ball being held of course to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Mr. James Lauder of the Lafayette Company will be in attendance with his fellow photographers in order to record the guests’ costumes and we will be acting as their assistants!

Well, most of us will be assistants but they couldn’t quite accommodate all of us so… Mrs. Frankles, you will actually being attending the ball itself! Isn’t that exciting!

And… here is your costume.

Um, yes, what?

Well, I suppose it does look a little like a maid’s costume, doesn’t it?

No! Of course you aren’t actually going to be a maid!

Though… it might be fun embracing the role perhaps? Handing round nibbles and the odd glass of champagne? Just generally pretending that you actually are a maid for the night even though you’re really, really, really a guest.

Mrs. Frankles, I truly don’t think that’s appropriate language. Now please hurry up and get changed—you may use my bedroom. Thank you.

I am certain that all the splendid costumes at the ball will inspire you, but here too is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s novel ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’. The quotation comes specifically from Chapter 13, Fixing The Nets:


“My eyes have been trained to examine faces and not their trimmings. It is the first quality of a criminal investigator that he should see through a disguise."



Here are the usual suggestions for 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


Ah, you’re ready, Mrs. Frankles.

So, off

we all go

to the ball!

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[scfrankles]

Welcome all!

I have most exciting news! With the assistance of Mr. Holmes and his many contacts, today we are going to be attending the Duchess of Devonshire’s costume ball—the ball being held of course to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Mr. James Lauder of the Lafayette Company will be in attendance with his fellow photographers in order to record the guests’ costumes and we will be acting as their assistants!

Well, most of us will be assistants but they couldn’t quite accommodate all of us so… Mrs. Frankles, you will actually being attending the ball itself! Isn’t that exciting!

And… here is your costume.

Um, yes, what?

Well, I suppose it does look a little like a maid’s costume, doesn’t it?

No! Of course you aren’t actually going to be a maid!

Though… it might be fun embracing the role perhaps? Handing round nibbles and the odd glass of champagne? Just generally pretending that you actually are a maid for the night even though you’re really, really, really a guest.

Mrs. Frankles, I truly don’t think that’s appropriate language. Now please hurry up and get changed—you may use my bedroom. Thank you.

I am certain that all the splendid costumes at the ball will inspire you, but here too is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s novel ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’. The quotation comes specifically from Chapter 13, Fixing The Nets:


“My eyes have been trained to examine faces and not their trimmings. It is the first quality of a criminal investigator that he should see through a disguise."



Here are the usual suggestions for 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


Ah, you’re ready, Mrs. Frankles.

So, off

we all go

to the ball!

Fic: That's Not Our Consulting Detective

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Title: That's Not Our Consulting Detective
Form/Word Count: 125
Characters/Pairing: Who can it be?
Rating: G
Warning/Content: In the style of a popular range of toddler books, e.g. That's Not My Tractor

( That's not our consulting detective )