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clerihew| Humorous verse form invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, characterized by a first line consisting of a person's name. |
| The four lines rhyme AABB, but the metre is often distorted for comic effect. An example, from Bentley's Biography for Beginners (1905), is: ‘Sir Christopher Wren/Said, I am going to dine with some men./If anybody calls/ Say I am designing St Paul's.’ |
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