Bouts Rimés
Several rhyming games are given among these Round Games, and the following is simply a variety of some of them:—
A slip of paper is given to each player, who is requested to write in one corner of it two words that rhyme.
The papers are then collected and read aloud, after which every one is expected to write a short stanza, introducing all the rhymes that, have been suggested.
When the completed poems are read aloud, it is very amusing to observe how totally different are the styles adopted by the various authors, and how great is the dissimilarity that exists between the ideas suggested by each one.