Short comic rhyme

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

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

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 .