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.
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2. clerihew
   [n] - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
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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.
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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`
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5. 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
   
   
6. 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.)
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7. Clerihew
   A `clerihew` is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. One of his best known is this (1905): :Sir Christopher Wren :Said, "I am going to dine with some men. :If anyone calls :Say I am designing St. Paul`s."<ref name=bentley>--> Form: A clerihew has...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew