In Competition No. 2960 you were invited to submit a poem on the theme of summer in which the last two words of each line rhyme.
It was only after the entries started coming in that I realised that my sloppy wording meant that the brief was open to interpretation. In most submissions, the last two words in a line rhymed with one another, which is what I had intended, but a few of you supplied poems in which the last two words in a line rhymed with the last two in the line below.
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