The Clerihew

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The clerihew is a short humorous biographical poem, invented by the English journalist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) from whom it takes its name. A clerihew has four lines of two rhyming couplets with no fixed metre. The first line is almost always the name of the person the poem is about.


Sir Christopher Wren

Said "I am going to dine with some men.

If anyone calls

Say I am designing St Paul's."


and here's one unashamedly nicked from another Entry:

Thomas Tallis

Bore no man any malice

Save an organist named Ken

Who played his music rather badly now and then. --Spike Millgan

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