17 MAY 1968, Page 32

No. 501: 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 words: banks, ranks; thrones, undertones; streams, dreams; shoreward, forward; door, before.

The subjects: The Paris riots; Kingmaker King;, a sewer-rat dreams of better things.

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. 501,' must be in by 27 May.