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clerihew
However, such things may have been the precursor to the clerihew as we know it today.
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A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
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Another contemporary and friend from schooldays was Edmund Bentley, inventor of the clerihew.
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Bentley's friend, G. K. Chesterton, was also a practitioner of the clerihew and one of the sources of its popularity.
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This appears to be a clerihew.
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Among contemporary writers, the satirist Craig Brown has made considerable use of the clerihew in his columns for The Daily Telegraph.
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What we shouldn't do is pretend that there are no standards and that any piece of drivel is as worthy as a John Donne sonnet, just cos our Wayne has writ a few lines of vaguely rhyming clerihew.
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- A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"
- A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The lines are comically irregular in length, and the rhymes, often contrived, are structured AABB. ...
- A rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line
- A form of light verse invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, consisting of two couplets and having the name of a person in the first line. E.g.,
- In light verse, a funny poem of closed-form with four lines rhyming ABAB in irregular meter, usually about a famous person from history or literature. Typically the historical person's name forms one of the rhymes. The name comes from Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), the purported inventor. ...
- Eponym: a witty verse, of two rhyming couplets, on a person named in one of the rhymes
- A witty, biographical poem of four lines (two rhyming couplets).
- A light verse two couplets in length rhyming aabb, usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme. It was named for its originator, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, an English writer.
