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