No. 488: 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 four of the fol- lowing five pairs of words as end-rhymes. The rhymes are taken from a well-known poem. The rhyme-scheme is optional.
The rhymes: slanted, enchanted; seething, breathing; hail, flail; pleasure, measure; device, ice.
The subjects: a belated Valentine; a 'Buy British' entreaty to drink English beer in- stead of imported wines; televising the House of Lords.
In addition to the usual prizes a, special prize of one guinea will be awarded to the first entry opened that correctly identifies the poem from which the rhymes were chosen. Entries, marked 'Competition No. 488,' must be in by 26 Feb- ruary.
'Of course everyone in town will know whom you mean by the Dark Lady and
Mr. W. H.' .
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