a/n: see chapter one. This poem refers to events in "The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips". A Rondel.
Holmes and companions do not belong to me.
No Escape
An envelope: five orange pips are spilled;
Long-buried shameful secrets reappear.
A haunted, hunted victim lives in fear;
No actions can avoid what fate has willed;
A promise from a distant shore, fulfilled.
A fatal rendezvous is drawing near.
~o~
An envelope: five orange pips are spilled;
Long-buried shameful secrets reappear.
Alarm and apprehension slowly build;
The purpose of the note remains unclear;
Such ignorance will cost this family dear.
A lone, defiant voice forever stilled.
~o~
An envelope: five orange pips are spilled;
Long-buried, shameful secrets reappear…
~o~
a/n 2: a rondel is quite an old form, Chaucer wrote in a similar style. Length can very; 14 lines is common, with the first and second lines repeated as the seventh and eighth lines, and the final two lines.