a/n: 4 sixteen line poems based on The Adventure of the Golden Pince-nez. Each is a variation on a quatern. The first two are from the point of view of Holmes; the second two from the point of view of Anna.
Thanks again to Ennui Enigma and Zaydee:-)
Blind
Holmes
one
A strange and quite perplexing case, I fear;
An innocent young man has lost his life.
The piece which caused the lethal blow, lies here;
A simple, yet quite deadly, paper knife.
~0~
The weapon, snatched in haste, was not pre-planned;
A strange and quite perplexing case I fear.
A fight which escalated out of hand?
A tragedy, has touched this place, it's clear.
~0~
What route was used to swiftly disappear?
Her spectacles, grasped tight, were left behind.
A strange and quite perplexing case I fear
With pince-nez lost, she was, alas, quite blind.
~0~
A pointless, unpremeditated crime,
An accident has cost all parties dear;
But justice will be meted out in time.
A strange and quite perplexing case, I fear.
~0~
two
An accident has cost all parties dear.
An innocent young man has lost his life
She must have fled the fatal scene in fear;
Regretted picking up that wretched knife.
~0~
The matting down both hallways is the same;
An accident has cost all parties dear.
Escaping from the household was her aim;
But did another hiding place appear?
~0~
The answer to the case is very near;
I know in which direction she has fled.
An accident has cost all parties dear;
The owner knows much than he has said.
~0~
She's somewhere in this bedroom and concealed;
Her trail across the carpet ash is clear.
What tale will follow once she is revealed?
An accident has cost all parties dear.
~0~~0~~0~
Anna
one
With pince-nez lost she was, alas, quite blind;
And waited; trapped, concealed and quite alone.
Her journey had been hard; the fates unkind;
The consequences chilled her to the bone.
~0~
The matting had confused her, marred her flight;
With pince-nez lost she was, alas, quite blind.
She'd lost her way and stumbled, robbed of sight,
And found the man who'd cost her peace of mind.
~0~
She'd hoped to save the friend she'd left behind
She'd simply hoped to block a shocked advance
With pince-nez lost she was, alas, quite blind;
A lethal weapon seized upon by chance.
~0~
An old embittered man, his troubled wife;
As past and present motives intertwined.
An innocent young man had lost his life;
With pince-nez lost she was, alas, quite blind.
~0~
two
As past and present motives intertwined,
She thought about the choices of her youth;
She hoped to help the one she'd left behind,
Who'd suffered for their cause and told the truth.
~0~
She'd done her very best to make amends
As past and present motives intertwined,
And he who'd sacrificed his wife and friends
Preyed constantly upon her troubled mind.
~0~
She pondered on the foolish ties which bind;
A coward had betrayed his loyal wife.
As past and present motives intertwined;
An innocent young man had lost his life.
~0~
She stepped into the room, she'd heard his voice;
With pince-nez lost she was, alas, quite blind.
She clutched the broken phial, she'd made her choice,
As past and present motives intertwined.
~0~
a/n2: A quatern is a 16 line poem, with 4 verses. The first line of the first verse is also the second line of verse 2, the third line of verse 3, and the last line of verse 4. Should be 8 syllables per line, mine have 10