In Competition No. 3328 you were invited to submit a poem on a topical theme in which the last two words of each line rhyme.
Some competitors were unsure whetherI meant that the last two words in each line should rhyme with each other, or with the next line. I meant the former, but given the ambiguous rubric either approach was acceptable.
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