Prizes for Bill Greenwell and George Simmers this week, with a near-miss for Frank Osen.
Here's the next comp: a kind of bouts-rimé sonnet.
Jayne (standing in for John this week, while he's in New York)
No. 2746: set text
You are invited to submit a sonnet using the following rhymes: pig, bat, cat, wig, jig, hat, rat, fig; lie, red, sob, die, bed, rob.
This is a rerun of a competition that was set back in the 1950s, and the rhymes are those given as an illustration of the verse form by the Concise Oxford Dictionary of that time. Please email entries, wherever possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 2 May.