It is obvious, as some of you have pointed out, and as I said at the outset, that Lucy is expecting prose. However, in these cases verse has sometimes won in the past, particularly if you can make out a case for it e.g. that the agony aunt is a poet, as in my case. I don't do prose for these things. I've never won with a prose entry, unlike, say, Bazza.
Yes, sixteen lines of verse in never as much as 150 words. The limits are set with an eye to how much space they will take up on the page. A lot of long entries means fewer prizes because of the space allotted (two columns)
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