Minister reduced by hack’s comic verse

• Form of light verse
• Type of light-verse quatrain
• Edmund C Bentley, for instance mocked gently; Vivaldi, when cut, cut again
• Short comic rhyme
• A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
• Verse minister cut and cut again

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
humorous verse form, 1928, from English humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), who described it in a book published 1906 under the name E. Clerihew .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clerihew \clerihew\ n. a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.