clerihew

Noun

Meaning

a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person

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`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew Source: Internet

According to a letter in the Spectator in the 1960s, Bentley said that a true clerihew has to have the name "at the end of the first line", as the whole point was the skill in rhyming awkward names. citation Retrieved 23 November 2013. Source: Internet

Chesterton himself wrote clerihews and illustrated his friend's first published collection of poetry, Biography for Beginners (1905), which popularised the clerihew form. Source: Internet

Edmund Clerihew Bentley was born in London in 1875; he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford and it was while studying Law in London that he began writing for various newspapers and magazines. Source: Internet

In popular culture * Mill is the subject of a 1905 clerihew by E. C. Bentley : citation John Stuart Mill, By a mighty effort of will, Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote Principles of Political Economy. Source: Internet

Bentley invented the clerihew in school and then popularized it in books. Source: Internet

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