What is a clerihew?
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a short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.
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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, or revealing something unknown or spurious about them. The rhyme scheme is AABB, and the rhymes are often forced.
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