Short comic rhyme

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

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.

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