21 MARCH 1981, Page 16

Terse verse

Sir: It's a bit hard to be portrayed in your columns (Competition 1155, 14 March) as the perpetrator of a feeble rhyme, when my couplet was: There must be very few who can afford To miss the bus because of Anna Ford. Triple rhyme, see?

Joyce Johnson Frog Cottage, Frog Lane, Tunbridge Wells