1) Form of light verse 2) Four-line biographical poem 3) Funny four-line poem 4) Genre of poetry 5) Rhyme 6) Verse
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1) Poem
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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. The rhyme scheme is AABB, and the rhymes are often forced. The line length and meter are irregular. Bentley invented the clerihew in school and then populariz....
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jingle summing up person's life in two couplets
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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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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]
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In light verse, a funny poem of closed-form with four lines rhyming ABAB in irregular meter, usually
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A form of light verse invented by edmund clerihew bentley, consisting of two couplets and having the
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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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aabb.
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n] - a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
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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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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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a light verse form, usually consisting of two couplets, with lines of uneven length and irregular meter, the first line usually containing the name of a well-known person.
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