Whenever I teach Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequence, The Amoretti, I demonstrate the complexity
of Spenser's unique rhyme scheme by having students shout out words that fit the scheme.  I write the
words down and I then challenge the class to compose sonnets using those words as the final rhymes of
each line.  Once I have enough entries, the class chooses a winner.

The winner for 2010:

"An unrequited love"
by Andrew Zuliani

If you ask me, dear stranger, why I cower like a frog,
As if some dreadful malady hath wrack'd me to the core,
It has -- indeed, in this same bar, in this same choking smog
Of cigarettes that fills the air from cracked window to door.
The smoke congealed one fateful eve, in the form of a whore
Whose features, so angelic, made all others seem a cow.
My breath drew sharp! My heart did melt like chocolate in a 'smore;
Ah, I was young, and bold, not this old man you pity now.
Gath'ring myself, I stated, "Madam, would you fain allow,
A man like me -- " She cut me short, like an unwanted noodle,
With mocking laughter as I stooped, still halfway through a bow,
And turning, shamed, I ran, tail 'twixt my legs, like a mere poodle.
So there it is.  Apologies, if I seem histrionic;
You see, it's only noon, but this is my fifth gin and tonic.