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holmes_minorWelcome, everyone, once again!
For this month, I thought we would examine the world of ladies’ cricket! Miss Stirling here is temporarily lodging with Mrs. Turner for a few days, and has graciously agreed to come along to give us a little talk on her very own ladies’ cricket club, based in her home village of Shepstock.
If you’d like to begin, Miss Stirling…?
And you’re done, dear?
Yes, thank you, it was most entertaining… Full of colour!
Um, I did just wonder… Might you… have embellished details at all? It’s just… Well.
(Mrs. Frankles! We do not call guests unreliable narrators!) Though to be fair…
You’re not related to our Dr. Watson at all, are you, Miss Sterling? No, it was a long shot. Thank you again, dear! You’ve given us a lot to digest.
Here as well is a short pamphlet on ladies’ cricket, giving a broader look at the sport. (And perhaps keeping a little closer to the factual side of things…)
And thirdly, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”:
”Yesterday we all came up and we settled at Bentley's private hotel. At ten o'clock I went round and saw that all the fellows had gone to roost, for I believe in strict training and plenty of sleep to keep a team fit.”
Hopefully this will all act as inspiration for your poetic endeavours.
Here as always 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 us have a quick visit to the pavilion, er, kitchen, for a tea break, and then on with the poetry!
For this month, I thought we would examine the world of ladies’ cricket! Miss Stirling here is temporarily lodging with Mrs. Turner for a few days, and has graciously agreed to come along to give us a little talk on her very own ladies’ cricket club, based in her home village of Shepstock.
If you’d like to begin, Miss Stirling…?
And you’re done, dear?
Yes, thank you, it was most entertaining… Full of colour!
Um, I did just wonder… Might you… have embellished details at all? It’s just… Well.
(Mrs. Frankles! We do not call guests unreliable narrators!) Though to be fair…
You’re not related to our Dr. Watson at all, are you, Miss Sterling? No, it was a long shot. Thank you again, dear! You’ve given us a lot to digest.
Here as well is a short pamphlet on ladies’ cricket, giving a broader look at the sport. (And perhaps keeping a little closer to the factual side of things…)
And thirdly, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”:
”Yesterday we all came up and we settled at Bentley's private hotel. At ten o'clock I went round and saw that all the fellows had gone to roost, for I believe in strict training and plenty of sleep to keep a team fit.”
Hopefully this will all act as inspiration for your poetic endeavours.
Here as always 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 us have a quick visit to the pavilion, er, kitchen, for a tea break, and then on with the poetry!
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Date: 2023-08-06 05:28 am (UTC)Info on J. M. Barrie's Sherlock Holmes fic
My Evening With Sherlock Holmes by J. M. Barrie
The Adventure of the Two Collaborators by J. M. Barrie
The Late Sherlock Holmes by J M Barrie (published prior to "The Final Problem," fascinatingly enough!)
Speaking of famous authors writing Sherlock Holmes fanfic, I'm sure you've heard of the infamous Herlock Sholmes, as written by Maurice Leblanc, despised by Doyle, and featured in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for legal reasons, but have you heard of A. A. Milne's Sherlock Holmes fanfic, "The Rape of the Sherlock"? To this date, it's the weirdest take on Professor Moriarty that I've ever seen. I can't find it anywhere online - I suppose it isn't public domain yet - but it was included in The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, which I recommend for any fan of bizarre Sherlock Holmes pastiches. I think my favorite was "The Marriage of Sherlock Holmes" by Gregory Breitman - marry him or murder him indeed! I also liked Barry Perowne's Raffles crossovers, which had slashy undertones (overtones?) to rival The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Date: 2023-08-06 09:20 pm (UTC)What a trove this is! I knew about Herlock Sholmes but none of the rest of it. I have written Raffles-ACD crossovers myself so that's very interesting. I have bookmarked this comment. It will be fun digging through all this.
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Date: 2023-08-07 12:18 am (UTC)The red, red rose and the briar is one of my favorite Raffles x Sherlock Holmes fics. The Adventure of the Gentlemen and Players from the most recent Holmestice is an exciting new twist - Ace Attorney x Raffles!
Dodgy rhythm but the sentiment is there!
Date: 2023-08-02 05:04 pm (UTC)For games of strength and skill
We were really going to show our worth
Until our star player fell ill
Mrs Turner had invited her
To come to our pre-match talk
Held the night before the match
And after she could not walk
It turned out drinking gin made her
Feel somewhat grotto
The rest of us of course
Are quite able to play when blotto
Re: Dodgy rhythm but the sentiment is there!
Date: 2023-08-06 04:03 am (UTC)Re: Dodgy rhythm but the sentiment is there!
Date: 2023-08-06 07:41 am (UTC)Re: Dodgy rhythm but the sentiment is there!
Date: 2023-08-06 05:29 am (UTC)Re: Dodgy rhythm but the sentiment is there!
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