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Look up: clerihew

  1. Clerihew
    A form of light verse devised by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. It consists of a quatrain composed of two couplets (rhymed: a-a-b-b) and takes as its subject a well known person(s) e.g.
    The meaning of the poet Gay
    Was always as clear as day,
    While that of the poet Blake
    Was often practically opaque.
    Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of

  2. clerihew
    [n] - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Clerihew
    a four line comic verse with two rhyming couplets. Lines may be of any length. The first line is the name of the person about whom the rhyme is written: Jeremiah Smith Is boring to be with The company he doth keep Will send a person to sleep Named after its inventor E. Clerihew Bentley who died in 1956.
    Found on http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary

  4. clerihew
    noun 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Clerihew
    A `Clerihew` (or `clerihew`) is a very specific kind of short biographical humorous verse.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew

  6. clerihew
    a light verse quatrain in lines usually of varying length, rhyming aabb, and usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme.[1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/96

  7. clerihew
    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., Celine Dion Sang a paeon To love and pain And ladies layin'. (I.L.)
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r


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