For instance, the rhyme scheme breeze, elephant, squeeze, pant, scant, please, hope, pope is submitted, and the following stanza is the result: Escaping from the Indian breeze, The vast, sententious elephant Through groves of sandal loves to squeeze And in their fragrant shade to pant; Although the shelter there be scant, The vivid odours soothe and please, And while he yields to dreams of hope, Adoring beasts surround their Pope.
[1] The Academy of Toulouse have also contributed towards keeping in countenance the bouts-rimés, by holding an annual contest of 14[clarify], to describe the glories of Louis XIV of France; the victorious sonnet was rewarded with a medal.
An instance of this is the following one, filled out by Father Commire: In 1701 Etienne Mallemans (d. 1716) published a collection of serious sonnets, all written to rhymes selected for him by the duchess of Maine.
Neither Piron, nor Marmontel, nor La Motte disdained this ingenious exercise, and early in the 19th century the fashion was revived.
Among my many friends there is not one Like her with whom I sat upon the bank Willow-o'ershadowed, from whose lips I drank A love more pure than streams that sing and run.