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Definitions of clerihew in various dictionaries:
noun - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
A humorous verse, usually consisting of two unmatched rhyming couplets, about a person whose name generally serves as one of the rhymes.
noun - a humorous poem
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| A humorous verse, usually consisting of two unmatched rhyming couplets, about a person whose name generally serves as one of the rhymes. |
| a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person |
| A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person. |
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| A clerihew () is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person put in an absurd light, or revealing something unknown or spurious about them. The rhyme scheme is AABB, and the rhymes are often forced. The line length and metre are irregular. Bentley invented the clerihew in school and then popularized it in books. One of his best known is this (1905): |