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clerihew
  1. A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. [from 1920s]
  2. Examples:
    1. “The literary form, the clerihew, was invented by a schoolboy, all about Sir Humphrey Davy who lived with the odium of having discovered sodium.”
      “The term is a general one that can be applied to nonsense verse, limerick, clerihew, epigram, and mock-epic.”
      “The three kept sentry, knowing that clerihew must sooner or later return with his convoy, there being no other exit.”
clerihews
  1. plural of clerihew
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