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clerihew (/ˈklɛrɪhjuː/) is a whimsical, four-line
biographical poem of a type
invented by
Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The
first line is the name of the...
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30
March 1956), who
generally published under the
names E. C.
Bentley or E.
Clerihew Bentley, was an
English novelist...
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley (inventor of the
clerihew verse form), he was
given the name Nicholas, but
opted to
change the spelling.
Nicholas Clerihew Bentley...
- the "
Clerihew Store", a
device for
drying coffee beans, for
which he
received the Isis Gold Medal.
Clerihew was born in Aberdeen, to
George Clerihew, builder...
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Poetry portal Chastushka –
Short Russian or
Ukrainian humorous folk song
Clerihew – Whimsical, four-line
biographical poem
Double dactyl –
Fixed verse form...
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least some
formal conventions.
Common forms include the limerick, the
clerihew, and the
double dactyl.
While light poetry is
sometimes condemned as doggerel...
- verbatim) Chastushka: ABAB, ABCB, or AABB Cinquain: ABABB[citation needed]
Clerihew: AABB Couplet: AA, but
usually occurs as AA BB CC DD ... Décima: ABBAACCDDC...
- Trent's Last Case 1st
edition Author Edmund Clerihew Bentley Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Mystery,
detective fiction Publisher Nelson...
- some men. If
anyone calls, Say I'm
designing Saint Paul's." A
clerihew by
Edmund Clerihew Bentley In
designing St Paul's,
Christopher Wren had to meet...
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Raleigh are
pastoral poetry written in six
quatrains that
employ a
clerihew rhyme-scheme of AABB. Compositionally, each poem
follows the unstressed...
