Clerihew
| Type: | | Structure, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Other Requirement,
Simple | | |
| Description: | | They are four lines long. The first and second lines rhyme
with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
A clerihew should be funny. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Edmund Clerihew Bentley | | |
| Origin: | | English | | |
| Schematic: | | aabb | | |
| Starting Point: | | The honoree's name. | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 4 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 4 | | |
| See Also: | | Double Dactyl, Light Verse | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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