5 JANUARY 1968, Page 27

No. 482: Octet

COMPETITION

Competitors are invited to compose an eight- line poem or stanza of a poem, on any one of the subjects given below, using the follow- ing four pairs of words as end-rhymes. The rhymes are taken from a well-known poem. The rhyme scheme is optional. Entries, marked 'Competition,' must be in by 15 January.

The rhymes: nun, sun; tranquillity, everlast- ingly; awake, make; divine, shrine.

The subjects: a New Year resolution; Twiggy takes the veil; an advertisement for a tranqui lliser.