20 SEPTEMBER 1968, Page 35

No. 519: 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: pleasure, measure: asunder, under: overfloweth, showeth; anguish, languish; revealed, healed.

The subjects: The return from abroad: on seeing Gone With the Wind for the umpteenth time: lines to a lover during the floods.

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 taken. Entries, marked 'Competition No. 519,' by 29 September.