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clerihew - n., a humorous or satiric biographical poem of four lines in two couplets with irregular line length and meter.
By convention, the name of the person described is usually in the first line and used as a rhyme. From the middle name of E.C. Bentley, the inventor. The first clerihew was a typical example of the form:
By convention, the name of the person described is usually in the first line and used as a rhyme. From the middle name of E.C. Bentley, the inventor. The first clerihew was a typical example of the form:
Sir Humphrey Davy---L.
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
