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 [klĕŕə-hyōṓ]
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Clerihew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The lines are comically irregular in length, and the rhymes, often contrived, are structured AABB. A cleri...
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
E. C. Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biogr...
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How to Write a Clerihew ... That means when you learn to write a clerihew, you can instantly write funny poems about your parents, your teacher, your favorite movie star, your best friend, your pet, or anyone else you can think of.
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Clerihews - a humorous rhyming verse form invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley - word play poetry at Thinks.com ... Further collections appeared in 1929 and in 1939. It was soon after publication of the first volume that the name CLERIHEW became applied to this particular form of light verse. What exactly is a clerihew?
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PS. Again, having such an odd middle name helps :-) [Biography] Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) is remembered mainly for his classic detective story Trent's Last Case and for the verse form that was named after him - the clerihew.
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Write a clerihew poem ... The clerihew poetry form was developed by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), a popular English novelist. These fun, whimsical poems are four lines long. The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other (a-a-b-b).
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form poetry, clerihew. ... A clerihew is 'a humorous pseudo-biographical quatrain, rhymed as two couplets, with lines of uneven length more or less in the rhythm of prose". The name of the subject is usually at the end of the first line (sometimes the second line) and is well known.
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Humerous poems about different celebrities written as clerihews ... A few months ago I was introduced to the form of poetry with the name of Clerihew. Edmund Clerihew Bentley a English writer invented the form. Clerihew is a light verse quatrain rhyming aa bb usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme.
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Clerihew poems ... Directions: Choose one character from the novel and write a Clerihew poem about them. The format is: line 1 must end in a proper name, line 2, 3, 4 describes the person. Lines 1 and 2 must rhyme and so do lines 3 and 4. The poems are meant to be humorous but for this assignment, they can be any tone.
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