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holmes_minorIt was a somewhat… involved… journey back from Switzerland, so I thought this month we would have a simple evening at Baker Street of tea, various fancies and an improving lecture.
To this end, I have invited Miss Nicole Rudolph to come and share her findings on the mysterious world of men’s pockets! Miss Rudolph is one of our American cousins, but I believe there is plenty of overlap between the gentlemen of our isles and gentlemen from across the Pond. (Though Mr. Holmes may be a one-off…)
Miss Rudolph, if you’d like to take it away, dear…?
When Men Had Too Many Pockets
Fascinating stuff, dear! Most entertaining and informative. If you’d like to partake now of the refreshments, and perhaps we can all mingle and informally discuss the subject further before moving onto our composing of poetr— Oh! Mrs. Frankles! You’re here at last! (I did think things seemed quieter than usual.)
Ahem. Where have you been, dear? What are—? No— No, Mrs. Frank— Mrs. Frankles! I don’t consider having a £5 note and a pocket watch waved in my face to be an answer! Could we have a try at complete sentences?
What? But… Mrs. Frankles, didn’t you get my note? After actually meeting with Mr. “Fingers” Chudleigh, I decided against the pickpocket masterclass. I felt we were getting into somewhat morally awkward territory. Yes, definitely cancelled, dear. No, Mr. “Fingers” definitely wouldn’t have been waiting at the decided rendezvous for us to practise upon. Well, I really don’t know who you pickpocketed, dea— Miss Rudolph! Oh, nothing to worry about here, honestly. Do please have another cup of tea. What a charming scarf!
(Oh dear God.)
Er, everyone? I just have to go and have a quick word with Mr. Holmes and possibly Inspector Lestrade. No, nothing to concern yourselves about!
Before I leave, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “Silver Blaze”:
“I presume that you made an inventory of what he had in his pockets at the time of his death, Inspector…?” We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the Inspector unlocked a square tin box and laid a small heap of things before us. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch of seal-skin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminium pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible blade marked Weiss & Co., London.
And here 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
Right, I will be back soon! (Mrs. Frankles, if you could just go and “lie low” in the cellar, that would be wonderful.)
To this end, I have invited Miss Nicole Rudolph to come and share her findings on the mysterious world of men’s pockets! Miss Rudolph is one of our American cousins, but I believe there is plenty of overlap between the gentlemen of our isles and gentlemen from across the Pond. (Though Mr. Holmes may be a one-off…)
Miss Rudolph, if you’d like to take it away, dear…?
When Men Had Too Many Pockets
Fascinating stuff, dear! Most entertaining and informative. If you’d like to partake now of the refreshments, and perhaps we can all mingle and informally discuss the subject further before moving onto our composing of poetr— Oh! Mrs. Frankles! You’re here at last! (I did think things seemed quieter than usual.)
Ahem. Where have you been, dear? What are—? No— No, Mrs. Frank— Mrs. Frankles! I don’t consider having a £5 note and a pocket watch waved in my face to be an answer! Could we have a try at complete sentences?
What? But… Mrs. Frankles, didn’t you get my note? After actually meeting with Mr. “Fingers” Chudleigh, I decided against the pickpocket masterclass. I felt we were getting into somewhat morally awkward territory. Yes, definitely cancelled, dear. No, Mr. “Fingers” definitely wouldn’t have been waiting at the decided rendezvous for us to practise upon. Well, I really don’t know who you pickpocketed, dea— Miss Rudolph! Oh, nothing to worry about here, honestly. Do please have another cup of tea. What a charming scarf!
(Oh dear God.)
Er, everyone? I just have to go and have a quick word with Mr. Holmes and possibly Inspector Lestrade. No, nothing to concern yourselves about!
Before I leave, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “Silver Blaze”:
“I presume that you made an inventory of what he had in his pockets at the time of his death, Inspector…?” We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the Inspector unlocked a square tin box and laid a small heap of things before us. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch of seal-skin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminium pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible blade marked Weiss & Co., London.
And here 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
Right, I will be back soon! (Mrs. Frankles, if you could just go and “lie low” in the cellar, that would be wonderful.)
